Edited by Jonathan Goldberg. Duke University Press, 2011
At the time of her death after a long battle with cancer, Eve Sedgwick had been working on a book on affect and Proust, and on the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. This volume, edited by her friend and fellow-Series Q editor, Jonathan Goldberg, brings together a collection of her last work done since Duke’s publication of Touching Feeling. In addition to her thoughts on affect, mind, Proust, and Klein, Sedgwick writes about Buddhism, her own artwork, and also looks back at her contributions to queer theory. Filled with luminous insight and Eve’s singular prose, this will be the last book in Series Q.
Contents
Editor’s Introduction
The Weather in Proust
Cavafy, Proust, and the Queer Little Gods
Making Things, Practicing Emptiness
Melanie Klein and the Difference Affect Makes
Affect Theory and Theory of Mind
Anality: News from the Front
Making Gay Meanings
Thinking through Queer Theory
Reality and Realization
Figure Credits
Index