TY - JOUR
AU - Hernández-Acosta, Adrián Emmanuel
AB - Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2024, 92, 412–419 https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfaf007 Advance access publication 10 March 2025 Roundtable Piece Roundtable on Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity at Thirty—or Thirty-Five On Method and Mourning in Judith Butler’s Theory of Performativity Adrián Emmanuel Hernández-Acosta The loss that melancholy affirms will also be the occasion for the persistence of passion. —Judith Butler, “Thresholds of Melancholy,” 1995 “There may well be a psychic theory of performativity at work that calls for greater exploration” (Butler 2006, xvi). This is how Judith Butler ends a paragraph-long discussion in the preface to the second edition of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. That discussion concerns the split status of the metaphor of an internal psyche. On the one hand, the book “clearly dr[aws] upon the metaphor of an internal psyche in its early discussion of gender mel- ancholy” (Butler 2006, xvi). On the other hand, the theory of performativity presented in the book seems to turn all internality inside out as nothing but the “effect of a set of stylized acts” (Butler 2006, xvi). Rather than trying to develop performativity’s own psychic theory, which would amount to something like 
TI - On Method and Mourning in Judith Butler’s Theory of Performativity
JO - Journal of the American Academy of Religion
DO - 10.1093/jaarel/lfaf007
DA - 2025-03-10
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/on-method-and-mourning-in-judith-butler-s-theory-of-performativity-dnVOMm3SAk
SP - 412
EP - 419
VL - 92
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
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