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- W916415749 abstract "Whenever I finish a long-term treatment with an analysand, I feel a certain degree of ambivalence. On the one hand, of course, are the lingering doubts about whether we are truly finished. There is also a certain sense of mourning and loss. Like the dispassionate mother, the analyst too has to relinquish any sense of possession. I need to let this subject who was a part of me, part of my affective and intellectual life, move into her own symbolic world.On the other hand, this analytic process has allowed me to witness a creative subject work her way out of the abyss, returning to herself and to others, which brings profound satisfaction. The city will surely lead a fuller life- a life that I will still follow in her as-yet-to-be-written future texts. Furthermore, her newfound independence is also my own in that I am pushed to new questions and new analysands . . .Before I put away these reflections upon the city's psychic voyages, however, I think about what to make of this most unusual analysand, a small but complex city.In this book, I explored the question of how a provincial Mexican city inundated with others was working out her own subjectivity and coming to a partial and ongoing understanding of these others through text. Specifically, I wanted to know if a provincial city, othered as female within the national/Mexico City-dominated male, could speak disruptively from this position on the margin, a question that echoes Kristeva's own interrogation of women's subjectivity and the possibility of speaking disruptively within patriarchy. In order to study the city's subjectivity, I anthropomorphized her as embodied and female. I also posited her as a writer, an unusual choice, but one that afforded me a way to listen to her and to uncover some of the unconscious contents contained within (and sometimes spilling out from) her psyche.What, then, can be said about this city I have spent time psychoanalyzing? This city whose body and writing I have explored, this city who holds me within much as I try to somehow contain her, however partially and temporarily, on paper? I offer the following tentative conclusions; like the city's infinite small plazas that constitute irregular openings in a maze of callejon complexity, these conclusions offer pauses in my own thinking, which are really only pauses from which to ask more questions about cities, about how to write our way to understandings of others, and about future psychoexplorations wailing to be undertaken ...THE CITY AS AN EARThe city is an ear. She is listening respectfully to the others who are now embedded in both permanent and transitory ways into her own bodily center. Listening constitutes an essential prerequisite for any questioning and radical action to come. Geographer Sui notes a shift in the field away from visual understandings and metaphors toward aurally evocative metaphors, noting that we find references now to conversation, dialogue, polyphony, dissonance, cacophony, letting data speak, narratives, multivocality ... (2000, p. 322). The city adds another voice to this claim. In my work, I thus found a city complexed with issues from the past and openly cautious about accepting too much otheness, a caution that results not only from previous experiences of others who abandoned her but also from contemporary knowledge of the harmful results that an overly touristic/otherized orientation can produce in Mexico's larger tourist destinations. She pauses, then, to listen. She listens first to her tradition, to history, and to the opinions of those who reside within. She may repress certain aspects of self that trouble her; however, she does not otherize her own self in the way that so many tourist sites tend to do. Furthermore, she listens to her bodily instincts-she listens to the collective memories written into and onto her body: the underground rivers, the tunnels, the mines, the painted colonial facades of her downtown. And unlike her megalopolis counterparts around the world, she still recognizes herself-she is not simply a collection of superficial images, but someone with flesh and blood. …" @default.
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- W916415749 title "Nine: Conclusions: The Small City Succeeds Where the Global City Might Not" @default.
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