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SUMMARY:Economizing Desire: The Sibling (in) Law - Professor Stefani Engel
 stein (University of Missouri)
DTSTART:20131104T170000Z
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CONTACT:Katie Stone
DESCRIPTION:Modernity diagnosed itself with a malaise at its inception:\nf
 ragmentation\, both psychological and social. While one recommended treatm
 ent – the aesthetic education – was suggested as a way to suspend divi
 sion\, economic theorists from Adam Smith to Claude Lévi-Strauss instead 
 entered desire into systems of exchange that exploited division. A princip
 le mechanism for disciplining desire in the nineteenth century was the sib
 ling relationship. Its erotics were policed\, and yet also acknowledged th
 rough a praxis of sublimation that used the sibling relationship as practi
 ce for adult marriage roles\, and encouraged de facto endogamy in the emer
 ging bourgeois class. Siblings produced anxiety regarding individuation\, 
 as is apparent in literature as diverse as Goethe’s _Wilhelm Meister_ an
 d George Eliot’s _Mill on the Floss_. The form and theoretical potential
  of siblinghood\, however\, differ from that of a pre-oedipal maternal att
 achment. Sibling logic offers an alternative to the exclusionary dynamics 
 of fusion or abjection\, a potential we can begin to grasp as siblings ree
 nter theory.
LOCATION:Grad Seminar Rm\, 3rd Fl. Raised Faculty Bldg.\, Sidgwick Site
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