Bracha L. Ettinger
Bracha L. Ettinger | |
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| Born | Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger 23 March 1948 |
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| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Psychoanalysis |
| Main interests | Lacanian psychoanalysis, art, feminist theory, aesthetics, human rights, ethics |
| Notable ideas | Matrixial gaze, matrixial space, transjectivity, transubjectivity, copoiesis, wit(h)nessing, carriance, fascinance, seduction-into-life, being-toward-birthing, coemergence, matrixial trans-subjectivity, the Subreal |
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Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger (Hebrew: ברכה ליכטנברג אטינגר; born 23 March 1948) is an Israeli-French artist, writer, psychoanalyst and philosopher based in France. Born in Mandatory Palestine, she lives and works in Paris. She is a feminist theorist and artist in contemporary New European Painting who invented the concepts of the matrixial space and matrixial gaze and related concepts around trauma, aesthetics and ethics. Ettinger is a professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and at GCAS, Dublin. In 2023, she was part of the Finding Committee for the Artistic Director of Documenta's 2027 edition. She resigned from that role with a public letter intended to open a radical discussion in the artworld, following the administration's rejection of her request for a pause due to the attacks on civilians in Israel and in Gaza and the ongoing heavy losses of life.