A Conversion Disorder

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Abstract

Interrogating the relationship between reading, writing and ‘conversion disorder’, this creative-critical essay explores the eversion of the glove in the work of Woolf, Genet, Freud and Derrida. Gathering together reflections on gloves and glove anaesthesia, doubles and pairs, and flowers and the death knell (glas), it offers a series of literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic conversions in order to return to and rethink the question of ‘disorder’.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)217-242
Number of pages26
JournalOxford Literary Review
Volume37
Issue number2
Early online date22 Oct 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2015
Externally publishedYes

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