Jacqueline Rose

Oct 10, 2024 | theguardian.com | Jacqueline Rose

In 1935, Sigmund Freud wrote to a distraught mother that her son’s suspected homosexuality was no cause for lament, “nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation. It cannot be classified as an illness.” If her son was unhappy and neurotic, analysis might release him from his distress and help him live a more creative life, but it would not, nor should it aim, to make him “straight”. No “conversion therapy” as we might say today.

Oct 8, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Jacqueline Rose

ABSTRACTThis article contends that sexual violence lies at the heart of Proust's The Fugitive. Most strikingly, Albertine's secret is not merely that she is a lesbian: she is rumoured to be guilty of consorting with Morel to groom and abuse impoverished and vulnerable young girls. Critics have – until now – tended to avert their eyes from this dark episode.

Feb 28, 2024 | versobooks.com | Gillian Rose |Jacqueline Rose

In August 1943, the French philosopher Simone Weil died from a cardiac arrest at age 34. The coroner’s report claimed that, after suffering complications from tuberculosis, she had killed herself by refusing to eat, ‘the balance of her mind [...] disturbed’. While the exact reason for Weil’s hunger strike remains unclear, many believe it to have been an act of solidarity with German families living under the Nazi regime.

Nov 20, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Jacqueline Rose

In response​ to the destruction of Gaza, it seems to be becoming almost impossible to lament more than one people at a time. When I signed Artists for Palestine’s statement last month, I looked for mention of the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israeli Jews on 7 October, and then decided to settle for the unambiguous condemnation of ‘every act of violence against civilians and every infringement of international law whoever perpetrates them’.

Nov 17, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Jacqueline Rose

In response​ to the destruction of Gaza, it seems to be becoming almost impossible to lament more than one people at a time. When I signed Artists for Palestine’s statement last month, I looked for mention of the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israeli Jews on 7 October, and then decided to settle for the unambiguous condemnation of ‘every act of violence against civilians and every infringement of international law whoever perpetrates them’.