"Refusing the Feminine Position during the French Revolution and not telling the story of Theroigne de Mericourt: A feminist historical critique of medical sovereignty" a talk by Dr. Soumyabrata Choudhury at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 4th November 2013
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Auditorium, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Seminar on ‘Refusing the Feminine Position during the French Revolution and not telling the story of Theroigne de Mericourt: A feminist historical critique of medical sovereignty’ by Dr. Soumyabrata Choudhury, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata
Abstract : This paper takes a singular and unforgettable figure from the history of the French Revolution who actively risks filiation with, and is ruthlessly exposed to, the ‘madness’ of revolution between 1789 and 1794 – and during the Thermidor that follows. In a series of summary images, we could visualize Theroigne de Mericourt as someone who refuses the ‘feminine’ position and directly identifies with the impersonal revolutionary swarm instead of the ‘men’ of the revolution: who responds to the ‘madness’ of sacrificial debt (of death) to an absent, nay, fantasized, people in the period of the terror with a mixture of reason and delusion; and who is confined to the asylums of the Thermidor and the Napoleonic Empire as a psychiatric patient and is diagnosed as chronically delusional. The speaker does not intend here to tell the story of Theroigne de Mericourt. Truth be told, that story, having gone through myriad perverse fabulations, has to be ‘untold’ to get at the core of the problem: that problem is indeed one of “madness and revolution”, as Elisabeth Roudinesco puts it – but in relation to the further question that when is it that the revolution becomes chronic, is expressed as a symptom and becomes the object of asylum, care and administration, that is, of medical government and a kind of psychiatric sovereignty.
Speaker : Dr. Soumyabrata Choudhury is Associate Professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. His book Theater, Number, Event: Three Studies on the Relationship Between Sovereignty, Power and Truth was published by the IIAS, Shimla (2013).
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Auditorium, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Seminar on ‘Refusing the Feminine Position during the French Revolution and not telling the story of Theroigne de Mericourt: A feminist historical critique of medical sovereignty’ by Dr. Soumyabrata Choudhury, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata
Abstract : This paper takes a singular and unforgettable figure from the history of the French Revolution who actively risks filiation with, and is ruthlessly exposed to, the ‘madness’ of revolution between 1789 and 1794 – and during the Thermidor that follows. In a series of summary images, we could visualize Theroigne de Mericourt as someone who refuses the ‘feminine’ position and directly identifies with the impersonal revolutionary swarm instead of the ‘men’ of the revolution: who responds to the ‘madness’ of sacrificial debt (of death) to an absent, nay, fantasized, people in the period of the terror with a mixture of reason and delusion; and who is confined to the asylums of the Thermidor and the Napoleonic Empire as a psychiatric patient and is diagnosed as chronically delusional. The speaker does not intend here to tell the story of Theroigne de Mericourt. Truth be told, that story, having gone through myriad perverse fabulations, has to be ‘untold’ to get at the core of the problem: that problem is indeed one of “madness and revolution”, as Elisabeth Roudinesco puts it – but in relation to the further question that when is it that the revolution becomes chronic, is expressed as a symptom and becomes the object of asylum, care and administration, that is, of medical government and a kind of psychiatric sovereignty.
Speaker : Dr. Soumyabrata Choudhury is Associate Professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. His book Theater, Number, Event: Three Studies on the Relationship Between Sovereignty, Power and Truth was published by the IIAS, Shimla (2013).
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"Refusing the Feminine Position during the French Revolution and not telling the story of Theroigne de Mericourt: A feminist historical critique of medical sovereignty" a talk by Dr. Soumyabrata Choudhury at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 4th November 2013
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