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Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life (review)

Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life (review) J S P Book Reviews Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life. Mari Ruti. New York: Other Press, 2006. Pp. xviii + 241. 13: 978-1-59051-123-7. 10: 1-59051-123-9. Mari Ruti's Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life simultaneously embraces and recalibrates posthumanist theory. Ruti affirms the subject's fate as decentered and socially constructed but discovers within instability the source of the subject's creative power. From the rubble of the fragmented subject she unearths the still-burning embers of a humanist soul. This, Ruti's first book, attempts to breath that soul back to life. Ruti begins by diagnosing posthumanist theory as so focused on hegemonic power that the subject is left irreparably alienated from itself and its community. Rather than abandon the posthumanist subject, Ruti recasts the negative space of loss and lack at the heart of subjectivity into an open space of possibility. To accomplish this, Ruti focuses on "psychic transformation" (2), bringing critical theory into dialogue with psychoanalysis. Ruti not only recalibrates our sense of pain but also revises the traditional emphases associated with her primary sources. Rather than oppression, trauma, and despair, she asks us to hear the affirmative claims to poetry, eros, and imagination in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Speculative Philosophy Penn State University Press

Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life (review)

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy , Volume 22 (2) – Feb 13, 2008

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J S P Book Reviews Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life. Mari Ruti. New York: Other Press, 2006. Pp. xviii + 241. 13: 978-1-59051-123-7. 10: 1-59051-123-9. Mari Ruti's Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life simultaneously embraces and recalibrates posthumanist theory. Ruti affirms the subject's fate as decentered and socially constructed but discovers within instability the source of the subject's creative power. From the rubble of the fragmented subject she unearths the still-burning embers of a humanist soul. This, Ruti's first book, attempts to breath that soul back to life. Ruti begins by diagnosing posthumanist theory as so focused on hegemonic power that the subject is left irreparably alienated from itself and its community. Rather than abandon the posthumanist subject, Ruti recasts the negative space of loss and lack at the heart of subjectivity into an open space of possibility. To accomplish this, Ruti focuses on "psychic transformation" (2), bringing critical theory into dialogue with psychoanalysis. Ruti not only recalibrates our sense of pain but also revises the traditional emphases associated with her primary sources. Rather than oppression, trauma, and despair, she asks us to hear the affirmative claims to poetry, eros, and imagination in

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Published: Feb 13, 2008

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