Bodies, Affects, Politics

Steve Pile teaches Geography at The Open University, UK. Publishing on issues concerning place and the politics of identity, Steve is the author of Real Cities (2005) and The Body and The City (1996), which both develop a psychoanalytic approach to geography. It is through these projects that he became interested in bodies and affects and their relationship to contemporary modernity. His many collaborative projects include Psychoanalytic Geographies (2014) edited with Paul Kingsbury, and Spaces of Spirituality (2018) edited with Nadia Bartolini and Sara MacKian.

List of Figures vi

Series Editors’ Preface viii

Preface ix

1 Introduction: Bodies, Affects and Their Politicisation 1

2 Dislocated by Epidermal Schemas: Skin, Race and a Proper Place for the Body 27

3 The Chafing of Bodily Regimes: Skin and the Corporeal Model of the Ego 49

4 Bodies, Affects and Their Passionate Forms: Animal Phobias and the Topologies of Bodily and Psychic Space 70

5 The Worldliness of Unconscious Processes: The Repressive and Distributive Functions of the Unconscious 91

6 The Transference of Affect: The Communicative Function of the Unconscious 113

7 Crazy about Their Bodies: The Art-work of Sharon Kivland and the Politics of the Female Body 136

8 Conclusion: Bodies, Affects, Politics 158

References 179

Index 192