Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective

Jessica Datema, PhD, is professor of Literature at Bergen Community College, USA. Dr Datema also received a creative writing certificate for studies accomplished at the University of Cambridge, and she has written and edited two other books. Angie Voela, PhD, is senior lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London, UK. She has published several journal articles, including "We Need to Talk About Family: Essays on Neoliberalism, the Family and Popular Culture" and is the author and editor of two previous books.

• Introduction: Rhythmic TransformationsPart I: Variable Measures1. Killing Eve: Inflections of Rebirth and Pathogenesis 2. Repetition to Revolution: Jordan Peele's Us 3. Radical Temporalities of Trauma, Melancholia, and DisasterPart II: Speed4. Uncut Gems: Dashing between the Red and the Black5. Running with Thieves: Baby Driver and The Beat My Heart Skipped6. Burning: Afterburn and Lawlessness in the AnthropocenePart III: Slowness7. "I repeated the routine": The Lacanian Drive in Ling Ma’s Severance and COVID-198. Richtering Rhythms: Never Look Away

“With deep acumen, Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective reveals how neoliberal capitalism’s performance principle drives us to the brink of destruction, suggesting that opting out of it altogether may be the only way toward a more rewarding life. Slowing down may be our only way to survive, let alone flourish, as we fight for our future and the future of our planet.” Mari Ruti, Distinguished Professor, University of Toronto, Canada “In this fine-tuned collection taking the pulse of the social unconscious, rhythm is shown to be everywhere. Tracking its beat in films, series, and novels, eight compelling essays build a cadence of meaning that resonate together when exploring the psychoanalysis of revolution or stasis, fever or convalescence, the synergy or suspension of time in dance and trauma, the capitalist speeding up of life intersecting with the unwinding of the Anthropocene.” Patricia Gherovici, Psychoanalyst and author of Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference (Routledge)