Bracha L. Ettinger Explained

Region:Contemporary Art, Western philosophy
Era:Contemporary philosophy, Art, Psychoanalysis
Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger
Birth Date:23 March 1948
Birth Place:Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine (present-day Israel)
Alma Mater:Hebrew University of Jerusalem
School Tradition:New European Painting, Continental philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Main Interests:Lacanian Psychoanalysis, art, feminist theory, aesthetics, human rights, ethics
Notable Ideas:Matrixial gaze, matrixial (matricial) space, transjectivity, transubjectivity, copoiesis, wit(h)nessing, Carriance, Seduction-into-life, Being towards birthing-with-birth, coemergence, matrixial trans-subjectivity

Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger (born March 23, 1948) is an Israeli-French artist, writer, psychoanalyst and philosopher, born in Mandatory Palestine and living and working in Paris. She is a feminist theorist and artist in contemporary New European Painting who invented the concept of the Matrixial Gaze and related concepts around trauma, aesthetics and ethics.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Ettinger is a professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and at GCAS, Dublin.[8] In 2023, she was part of the Finding Committee for the Artistic Director of Documenta's 2027 edition.[9] 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.[10] [11] [12]

Life and work

Bracha Lichtenberg was born to Jewish-Polish Holocaust survivors in Tel Aviv on 23 March 1948.[13] She received her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she worked as research assistant for, then as personal assistant of, Amos Tversky (1969/70, 1973/74, 1974/75) and Danny Kahneman (1970/71).[14] She moved to London where she studied, trained, and worked between 1975 and 1979 at the London Centre for Psychotherapy (with Elsa Seglow), the Tavistock Clinic, and the Philadelphia Association (with R. D. Laing) and became a British citizen. She married Loni Ettinger in 1975 and divorced him in 1981; her daughter, the actress Lana Ettinger,[15] was born in London.

Ettinger returned to Israel in 1979 and worked at Shalvata Hospital. She has painted and drawn since early childhood, self-taught. In her early days she avoided the art scene. In 1981, she divorced her first husband, decided to become a professional artist and moved to Paris where she lived and worked from 1981 onward. Her son, Itai Toker, was born in 1988. She returned to Tel Aviv in 2003. As well as painting, drawing and photography, she began writing, and received a D.E.A. in Psychoanalysis from the University Paris VII Diderot in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Aesthetics of Art from the University of Paris VIII in 1996.[14]

Ettinger had a solo project at the Pompidou Centre in 1987, and a solo exhibition at the Museum of Calais in 1988. In 1995, she had a solo exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and in 1996 she participated in the Contemporary art section of Face à l'Histoire. 1933–1996 exhibition in the Pompidou Centre.[16] In 2000, she had a mid-life retrospective at the Centre for Fine Arts (The Palais des Beaux Arts) in Brussels, and in 2001 a solo exhibition at the Drawing Center in New York.[17] She continued to train as a psychoanalyst with Françoise Dolto, Piera Auglanier, Pierre Fedida, and Jacques-Alain Miller, and became an influential contemporary French feminist.[18] [19] [20] [21]

Around 1988, Ettinger began her Conversation and Photography project. Her personal art notebooks[22] [23] have become source for theoretical articulations. Her art has inspired historian Griselda Pollock, international curator Catherine de Zegher, and philosophers Jean-François Lyotard, Christine Buci-Glucksmann and Brian Massumi, who dedicated a number of essays to her painting.[24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31]

Based mainly in Paris, Ettinger was visiting professor (1997–1998) and then research professor (1999–2004) in psychoanalysis and aesthetics at the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds.[14] Since 2001, she has been visiting professor in Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics at the AHRC Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (now CentreCATH).[32] Ettinger had returned to Tel Aviv on a part-time basis in 2003 when she separated from her partner. She was a lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem until 2006, when she became Chair and Professor at the EGS.[14] She founded the matrixial theory in psychoanalysis.[33]

Artistic

See main article: The Matrixial Gaze. Ettinger's art engages in the subject of trauma, mothers and women during war as well as the feminine in mythology: Eurydice, Medusa, Demeter, Persephone, and matrixial Eros. Her abstract research in painting concerns light and space, which follows Monet and Rothko.[34] [35] [36] Her subjects concern the human condition and the tragedy of war, and her work in this aspect joins artists such as Käthe Kollwitz and Francisco Goya.[37] The painting process engages a space of passage between figures and abstraction, and her attitude to abstraction resonates with the spiritual concerns of Agnes Martin, Emma Kunz and Hilma af Klint.[38] [39] Her notebooks accompany the painting process but are equally artworks.[40] From 1981-92, her principal artwork consisted of drawing and mixed media on paper as well as notebooks and artist's books, where alongside theoretical work and conversations she made ink and wash painting and drawing. Since 1992, apart from her notebooks, most of her artwork consists of mixed media and oil paintings, with a few parallel series that spread over time like "Matrix — Family Album", "Autistwork" and "Eurydice", with themes of transgenerational transmission of personal and historical trauma, traces of memory and remnants of oblivion, the Shoah and the World Wars,[41] [42] [43] the gaze, light, color and the space,[44] female body, womanhood and maternality, inspired by classical painting and creating an abstract space where the questions of beauty[45] and sublime are renewed for our time.[46]

According to Griselda Pollock,[47] [48] Catherine de Zegher[49] [50] [51] and Chris Dercon, director of the Tate Modern who had chosen her work for the contemporary art section of the Pompidou Center's major exhibition of 20th Century art Face à l'Histoire,[52] Ettinger has become one of the major artists of the New European Painting. Along with painting she has worked on installations, theoretical research, lectures, video works, and "encounter events". Her paintings, photos, drawings, and notebooks have been exhibited at the Pompidou Centre,[53] and the Stedelijk Museum in 1997. In the last decade, Ettinger's oil on canvas paintings involve figures like Medusa, Demeter and Persephone, and Eurydice, and the subject matter of the Pietà, the Kaddish, Eros, and Chronos. From 2010 onward, her work still consists mainly of oil paintings, notebooks (artist's books) and drawings, she is doing new media animated video films where the images are multi-layered like her painting. In 2015, she participated with a solo show in the 14th Istanbul Biennial drafted and curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.[54] In 2018-19 she participated with a solo show at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018 in India.2019.[55] Bracha L. Ettinger is represented by Andrew Kreps, New York[56] and High Art, Paris.[57]

Reception

Ettinger's work consists mostly of oil painting and writing. Ettinger is now considered to be a prominent figure among both the French painters' and the Israeli art's scenes. Her art was analysed at length in the book Women Artists at the Millennium,[58] in Griselda Pollock's Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum[59] and in Catherine de Zegher's anthology Women's Work is Never Done.[60] Her ideas in cultural theory, psychoanalysis, and French feminism (see Feminist theory and psychoanalysis) achieved recognition after the publication of Matrix and Metramorphosis (1992), fragments from her notebooks (Moma, Oxford, 1993) and The Matrixial Gaze (1995). Ettinger established a new area of studies in psychoanalysis, art and feminism.[61] Over the last three decades, her work has been influential in art history.[62]

Psychoanalyst

Ettinger is a theoretician who invented and developed a language for a feminine-maternal-'matrixial' (matricial) dimension in artistic creativity[63] and in ethics of care and responsibility. She coined the concept of matrixial (matricial) space and matrixial gaze first in her artistic Notebooks from 1985 onward,[64] and in academic publications from 1992 onward.[65]

Ettinger's 'matrixial theory' articulating transjectivity and transubjectivity in the subject and in human relationships had proposed an unconscious feminine/maternal and pre-maternal/prenatal time-space of feminine sexuality and femininity in all genders, which go together with ethics of care and wonder,[66] 'seduction-into-life'[67] and responsibility, where trans-subjectivity is in an ontology of string-like subject-subject (trans-subjective) and subject-object (transjective) transmissivity and affective co-emergence, transformed the way to think both the feminine and the human subject, both the analyst in transference relation[68] and the analysant in its relation to her, in psychoanalysis. Working on the question of trauma, memory and oblivion[69] at the intersections of human subjectivity, feminine sexuality, maternal subjectivity, psychoanalysis, art[70] and aesthetics, she contributed to psychoanalysis the idea of a feminine-maternal sphere of sexuality and ethics, function, and structure where symbolic and imaginary dimensions are based on femaleness in the real (the meaning of matrix is womb). This dimension, as symbolic, contributes to ethical thinking about human responsibility to one another and to the world. The French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard related to Ettinger's writing and painting in two famous articles written in 1993 and 1995, Anima Minima (Diffracted Traces)[71] andL'anamnese (anamnesis).[72] She is a senior clinical psychologist, and a supervising and training psychoanalyst. Her artistic practice and her articulation, since 1985, of what has become known as the matrixial theory of trans-subjectivity have transformed contemporary debates in contemporary art, psychoanalysis, women's studies, and cultural studies. Ettinger was an analysand of Ronald Laing in London and of Piera Aulagnier in Paris. She is member of the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TAICP),[73] the New Lacanian School (NLS) and the World Association of Psychoanalysis (AMP / WAP).[74]

For Ettinger, the Freudian attitude to psychoanalysis is crucial as it emphasizes the phantasmatic value of materials that arise during regression. To Freud and Lacan she adds, however, a feminine-maternal space-time with its particular structures, functions, Eros, Aesthetic, Ethics and ethical potentiality (she names matrixial proto-ethics) and dynamics in the unconscious. She claims that, in a similar way, when seduction is assigned to the paternal figure during regression, it is recognized in most cases as a result of the therapeutic process itself. The analyst therefore must become aware to her capacity for a 'seduction into life' as well as for retraumatizing the analysand. A matrixial ethical countertransference can be worked-through only in 'empathy within compassion' in where therapist avoids parent-blaming. The analyst develops her psychic womb-space to be able to work with the matrixial sphere for the directing of healing. Therapists must likewise realize that during regression phantasmatic maternal "not-enoughness" appears and must also be recognized as the result of the process itself, and be worked-through without the mother-hating that Ettinger considers contributes to a "psychotization" of the subject, which blocks the passage from rage to sorrow and from there to compassion. To be able to recognize the phantasmatic status of the psychic material arising during therapy, the Lacanian concepts of the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real are useful to her. Ettinger works between the fields of psychoanalysis and philosophy to change Ethics according to the feminine-maternal-matrixial source after Levinas and Lacan. She is also rethinging and gives new meaning the concepts of beauty and of the sublime.[75] [76] [77]

Psychoanalytic theory

Major concepts

Ettinger revolutionized the field of psychoanalysis and cultural studies when she coined in artist's books (Notebooks) that she exposed publicly starting from 1985 and in a long series of articles published since 1991 the concept of the matrixial (matricial) space and proposed the feminine matrixial time-space of feminine/prenatal encounter-event as source of human aesthetics and proto-ethics, and femininity as the deep core of ethics, which enters the human subjectivity via the maternal.[78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84] [85] [86] Ettinger invented and developed the Matrixial Trans-subjectivity theory, or simply "The Matrixial", with original concepts like matrixial gaze, borderlinking, borderspacing, matrixial time-space, copoiesis, wit(h)nessing, co/in-habit(u)ation, transubjectivity, transjectivity, fascinance, seduction-into-life and carriance. She named the processes of transformation in a matrixial sphere: metramorphoses, and proposed the coemergnce of partial-subjects of I and non-I, female-prematernal-prenatal encounter, Encounter-event, ethical seduction into life, uncanny compassion and uncanny awe (that supplement the uncanny anxiety), fascinance, proto-ethics, being-toward-birth with being-toward-birthing, seduction into life, empathy within compassion, carriance (caring-carrying in the unconscious space of psychic pregnancy) and the matricial feminine-maternal Eros.[87] [88]

The early theory: from 1985 through the 1990s

Ettinger invented the concept 'matrixial space' ('matricial space' from etymology of 'womb'), matrixial gaze, matrixial sphere, a feminine-maternal and feminine-prematernal transjective dimension, space, function, Eros and dynamics in the human Unconscious that as the source of humanized ethics and aesthetics, and developed a theoretical philosophical field in her artist's books and notebooks starting 1985,[89] and in books and journals printed in academic journals from 1991 onwards. She had suggested that pre-natal impressions, connected to the phantasmatic and traumatic real of the pregnant becoming-mother, are trans-inscribed in the emerging subject and form the primary phase and position of the human psyche. "I" and "non-I", without rejection and without symbiotic fusion, conjointly inscribe memory traces that are dispersed asymmetrically but in a trans-subjective mode. Trans-subjective mental and affective unconscious "strings", connecting the prenatal emerging subject to the archaic m/Other, open unconscious routes ("feminine", non phallic, in both males and females) that enable subjectivizing processes all throughout life whenever a new matrixial encounter-event takes place. The matrixial encounter-event forms specific aesthetical and ethical accesses to the Other. Ettinger articulated the 'matrixial gaze' and the process of 'metramorphosis' and 'co-poiesis'. This allows new understanding of trans-generational transmission, trauma and artistic processes. Ettinger formulates the woman(girl)-to-woman(mother) difference as the first sexual difference for females to be viewed first of all according to the matrixial parameters. The feminine-maternal Eros informs also the father/son and mother/son relations. According to Ettinger, in parallel but also before expressions of abjection (Julia Kristeva) or rejection (Freud on Narcissism) of the other, primary compassion, awe and fascinance (which are unconscious psychic affective accesses to the other, and which join reattunement and differentiating-in-jointness by borderlinking) occur. The combination of fascinance and primary compassion does not enter the economy of social exchange, attraction and rejection; it has particular forms of Eros and of resistance that can inspire the political sphere and reach action and speech that is ethical-political without entering any political institutional organization. The infant's primary compassion is a proto-ethical psychological means that joins the aesthetical fascinance and creates a feel-knowing that functions at best within maternal (and also parental) compassionate hospitality. Awareness to the matrixial time-space, pre-maternal com-passion and maternal compassion together with the ethical 'seduction-into-life' it involves, is source of responsibility.[90] [91] Here, one witnesses in jointness: The I wit(h)ness while borderlinking (bordureliance) to the non-I and borderspacing (bordurespacement) from the other. Ettinger calls for the recognition of the matrixial transference as a dimension in the transferential relationships in psychoanalysis. They must entails besideness to (and not a split from) the archaic the m/Other (Autremere) and parental figures; jointness-in-differentiation rather than their exclusion. She sees in the trans-subjectivity a distinct dimension of human specific linkage and shareability, different from, and supplementary to "inter-subjectivity" and "self" psychology. Her most prominent and comprehensive book regarding this theory is "The Matrixial Borderspace" (reprint of essays from 1994–1999) published in French in 1999[92] and in English in 2006,[93] but her most recent concepts are mainly elaborated in the different essays printed in 2005–2006.[94]

The theory in the 2000s

Her more recent artistic and theoretical work centers around the spiritual in art and ethics. In the domain of psychoanalysis, around the question of same-sex differences, the primary feminine difference is the difference opened between woman (girl) and woman (m/Other), maternal subjectivity, maternal/pregnance Eros of com-passion, the effects of compassion and awe and the passion for borderlinking and borderspacing[95] and the idea that three kinds of fantasy (that she names Mother-fantasies) should be recognized, when they appear in a state of regression aroused by therapy itself, as primal: Mother-fantasies of Not-enoughness, Devouring and Abandonment. Their mis-recognition in psychoanalysis (and analytical therapy), together with the ignorance of maternal Eros of com-passion leads to catastrophic blows to the matrixial daughter-mother tissue and hurts the maternal potentiality of the daughter herself, in the sense that attacking the "non-I" is always also attacking the "I" that dwells inside an "I"-and-"non-I" trans-subjective matrixial (feminine-maternal) tissue. Contributing to Self psychoanalysis after Heinz Kohut, Ettinger articulated the difference between com-passionate borderlinking, compassion (as affect) and empathy, and between "empathy without compassion" and "empathy within compassion", claiming that the analyst's empathy without compassion harms the matrixial psychic tissue of the analysand, while empathy within compassion leads to creativity and to the broadening of the ethical horizon. Ettinger explains how by empathy (toward the patient's complaints) without compassion (toward the patient's surrounding past and present family figures, no less than toward the patient itself), the therapist "produces" the patient's real mother as a "ready-made monster-mother" figure, that serves to absorb complaints of all kinds, and thus, a dangerous splitting is induced between the "good" mother figure (the therapist) and a "bad" mother figure (the real mother). This splitting is destructive in both internal and external terms, and mainly for the daughter-mother relations, since the I and non-I are in any case always trans-connected, and therefore any split and projected hate (toward such figures) will turn into a self-hate in the woman/daughter web. Such a concept of subjectivity, where "non-I" is trans-connected to the "I", has deep ethical implications[96] as well as far-reaching sociological and political implications that have been further developed by Griselda Pollock in order to rethink modern and postmodern art and History. Ettinger's recent theoretical proposals starting around 2008 include the three Shocks of maternality and the paternal infnticide impulses (Laius Complex)[97] Carriance[98] and the Demeter–Persephone Complex, working around Greek Mythology and the Hebrew Bible, the woman artists Eva Hesse, Hilma af Klint and Emma Kunz and the poets and writers Sylvia Plath, Marguerite Duras and Alejandra Pizarnik.

Other activities

Ettinger led the biggest rescue, evacuation and saving operation in the history of the Middle East: saving the drowning young men of the Eilat shipwreck (in 1967), when she was 19 years old. She was wounded during the operation and suffered shell-shock after it. More than a half-century later, the details of this event were declassified and she was awarded the highest Air-Force Medal for Heroism.[99] [100] [101] [102] [103] [104]

Ettinger is a supporter of human rights and stands for coexistence of two states, Israel and Palestine, side by side in mutual respect. She is feminist activist for peace and against the occupation for few decades, engaged in the efforts towards cohabitation in the frame of four different organizations of Israelis and Palestinians collaborating together: "Women Make Peace", "Forum of Bereaved Families", "Combatants for Peace" and "Physicians for Human Rights" ("PHR-Israel"). Ettinger contributes to the organization as senior clinical psychologist, attending Palestinian patients in needed areas in the Palestinian territories.[105]

Ettinger is known for her portrait photography, taken in the context of conversation projects. Some of her portraits, like those of Christian Boltanski,[106] Jean-François Lyotard,[107] Edmond Jabès,[108] Emmanuel Lévinas,[109] Robert Doisneau[110] and Yeshayahu Leibowitz appear in several official publications and collections.

Fascinance: Forum for Ettinger Studies

Fascinance is forum which was started by Srishti Madurai in South India on 24 December 2013 which offers Introductory Course in Ettingerian Psychoanalysis[111]

The aims of the forum are:

Publications

Ettinger is author of several books and more than eighty psychoanalytical essays elaborating different aesthetical, ethical, psychoanalytical and artistic aspects of the matrixial. She is co-author of volumes of conversation with Emmanuel Levinas, Edmond Jabès, Craigie Horsfield, Félix Guattari and Christian Boltanski. Her book Regard et Espace-de-Bord Matrixiels (essays 1994–1999) appeared in French in 1999 (La lettre volée), and has been published in English as The Matrixial Borderspace (2006, University of Minnesota Press, edited by Brian Massumi and foreword by Judith Butler and Griselda Pollock). http://fty.sagepub.com/cgi/content/citation/8/3/354?rss=1 Ettinger is one of the leading intellectuals associated with contemporary French feminism and feminist psychoanalytical thought alongside Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray.[112] [113] The journal Theory Culture & Society dedicated an issue to her work [''TC&S, Vol.21, n.1''] in 2004.

Selected books

Selected publications

Conversations

Lectures and seminars

See also

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Evans . Brad . Ettinger . Bracha L. . 2016-12-17 . Opinion Art in a Time of Atrocity . 2024-02-22 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
  2. Bracha L. Ettinger, "Matrix and Metramorphosis", Differences. Vol. 4, nº 3, 1992.
  3. Bracha L. Ettinger, The Matrixial Borderspace. (Essays from 1994 to 1999). University of Minnesota Press, 2006
  4. Bracha L. Ettinger, Régard et éspace-de-bord matrixiels. Brussels: La Lettre Volée, 1999.
  5. Bracha L. Ettinger, Proto-ética matricial. Psychoanalytical writings from the 1990s. Spanish Edition translated and Introduced by Julian Gutierrez Albilla (Gedisa 2019)
  6. Bracha L. Ettinger, "Diotima and the Matrixial Transference." In: Van der Merwe, C. N., and Viljoen, H., eds. Across the Threshold. New York: Peter Lang, 2007;
  7. Bracha L. Ettinger, Matrixial Subjectivity, Aesthetics, Ethics. Vol 1: 1990-2000. Selected papers from the 1990s edited with Introduction by Griselda Pollock. Pelgrave Macmillan (2020).
  8. Web site: Faculty some of the best in the world — GCAS College Dublin debt-free, higher-quality education.. GCAS College Dublin. 9 February 2022.
  9. Alex Greenberger (30 March 2023), Documenta Kicks Off Search for Artistic Director of 2027 Edition ARTnews. Accessed 5 April 2024.
  10. News: Resignations Roil Documenta as War in Gaza Polarizes Art World . The New York Times . 17 November 2023 . 2023-11-19 . en . Marshall . Alex . Farago . Jason .
  11. Web site: Documenta Resignation Letter - Notes - e-flux . 2024-02-22 . e-flux.com . en.
  12. News: Kegel . Sandra . 2023-11-20 . Documenta: Bracha L. Ettinger über ihren Austritt . 2024-02-22 . FAZ.NET . de . 0174-4909.
  13. Web site: 78372597. Viaf.org. 9 February 2022.
  14. Web site: Bracha Ettinger Biography . egs.edu . The European Graduate School . 2 September 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150905213057/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/bracha-ettinger/biography/ . 5 September 2015 .
  15. https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/.premium-MAGAZINE-1.2886331 Interview (in Hebrew) with Lana Ettinger
  16. Face à l'Histoire. 1933–1996. Paris: Flammarion and Centre Georges Pompidou (1996);
  17. Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger: Eurydice Series. Edited by Catherine de Zegher and Brian Massumi. Drawing Papers, n.24. NY: The Drawing Center, 2001. With texts by Judith Butler, Bracha Ettinger, Adrien Rifkin and the editors, and including a conversation between the Bracha Ettinger and Creigie Horsfield.
  18. Couze Venn, in: Theory, Culture and Society. Vol. 21 (1), 2004.
  19. Vanda Zajko and Miriam Leonard (ed.s), Laughing with Medusa. Oxford University Press;
  20. [Maggie Humm|Humm, Maggie]
  21. Humm, Maggie, Feminism and Film. Indiana University Press (1997);
  22. Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Matrix. Halal(a) — Lapsus. Notes on Painting. Oxford: MOMA (1993);
  23. Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger: Artworking 1985–1999, with a reprint of Notes on Painting. Ludion: Ghent-Amsterdam, and Brussels: Palais des Beaux-Arts, 2000;
  24. Brian Massumi, "Painting: The voice of the grain" in Bracha L. Ettinger, The Matrixial Borderspace, University of Minnesota Press, 2006
  25. Jean-François Lyotard, "Diffracted Traces / Anima Minima, Matrix - Halala Autistwork, Israel Museum, 1995 and in: Noam Sigal, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Radicants / Le press du reel, Paris, 2022
  26. Jean-François Lyotard, "Anamnesis", in Noam Sigal (ed.), Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Radicants / Le press du reel, Paris, 2022
  27. Christine Buci-Glucksmann, "Inner space of painting", Halala - autistwork, Israel Museum 1995
  28. Griselda Pollock, Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum, Routledge, 2007
  29. Catherine de Zegher, Women's Work is Never Done, Ghent: Mer. Papers Kunsthalle, 2015
  30. de Zegher, Catherine and Pollock, Griselda, eds. Art as Compassion, Ghent: Mer. Papers Kunsthalle, 2011.
  31. de Zegher, Catherine, Inside the Visible, MIT Press, 1996.
  32. AHRC Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History AHRC B.Ettinger page.
  33. Bracha L. Ettinger, Matrixial Subjectivity, Aesthetics, Ethics. Vol I: 1990-2000. Edited by Griselda Pollock, Pelgrave-Macmillan, 2020.
  34. Manning, Erin. "Vertiginious Before the Light", Art as Compassion. MER Paper Kunsthalle, 2011.
  35. Benjamin, Andrew. "Lighting, Colouring, Workin" in Bracha L. Ettinger. And My Heart Wound-Space. Leeds: Wild Pansy Press, 2015;
  36. Buci-Glucksmann, Christine. "Images of Absence in the Inner Space of Painting", Inside the Visible. MIT Press, 1996.
  37. Kinsella, Tina, "Sundering the Spell of Visibility", and Pollock Griselda, "Between Painting and the Digital" in Bracha L. Ettinger. A. And My Heart Wound-Space. Leeds: Wild Pansy Press, 2015; .
  38. Pollock, Griselda. "Agnes Dreaming: Dreaming Agnes", and Bracha L. Ettinger "The Art-and-Healing Oeuvre" in 3 x Abstraction. Yale University Press, 2005.
  39. Pollock, Griselda,Art in the Time-Space of Memory and Migration: Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud and Bracha L. Ettinger in the Freud Museum. Leeds: Wild Pansy Press and London: Freud Museum (2013)
  40. [Nicolas Bourriaud]
  41. [Griselda Pollock]
  42. [Griselda Pollock]
  43. [Marianne Hirsch]
  44. Bracha L. Ettinger, Translucent Fore-images. Glowing through painting. In: Colori. Curator and Editor: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Modern Art, Turin, 2017;
  45. Tina Kinsella, Sundering the Spell of Visibility, in: Bracha L. Ettinger: And My Heart Wound-space. Leeds: Wild Pansy Press and 14th Istanbul Biennial, 2015.
  46. [Jean-Francois Lyotard]
  47. Pollock, Griselda, Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum. Taylor and Francis, 2010.
  48. Pollock, Griselda, Art in the Time-Space of Memory and Migration: Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud and Bracha L. Ettinger in the Freud Museum. Leeds: Wild Pansy Press, 2013.
  49. De Zegher, Catherine, Women's Work is Never Done. MER Edition, 2015.
  50. Catherine de Zegher and Griselda Pollock (eds.), Art as Compassion. Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger. Ghent: MER. Paper Kunsthalle & Brussels: ASA Publishers, 2011.
  51. De Zegher, Catherine, Inside the Visible. MIT Press, 1996.
  52. Web site: Face à l'Histoire (1933-1996) - L'artiste moderne face à l'évènement historique. Engagement, Témoignage, Vision. Centrepompidou.fr. 9 February 2022.
  53. Web site: Artist/Personality: Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger: Painter . .
  54. Web site: Pavilion Istanbul in/+Leeds Part 3. pavilion.org.uk. Pavilion. 3 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150919211303/http://www.pavilion.org.uk/events/2015/Bracha-Ettinger/. 19 September 2015. dead.
  55. "21st Century will be feminine and Spiritual." Kochi-Muziris Biennale / ArtistSpeak, interviewed by Jaideep Sen. The New Indian Express / Indulge. 15 March 2019.
  56. Web site: BRACHA L. ETTINGER - Artists - Andrew Kreps Gallery . 2024-06-29 . www.andrewkreps.com . en.
  57. Web site: Bracha L. Ettinger . 2024-06-29 . HIGH ART . en-US.
  58. Women Artists at the Millennium, 2006, Edited by Carol Armstrong and Catherine de Zegher;, . The MIT press book page
  59. Pollock, Griselda, Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum. Taylor and Francis;
  60. De Zegher, Catherine, Women's Work is Never Done. MER Edition, 2015; .
  61. Pollock . Griselda . February 2004. Thinking the Feminine: Aesthetic Practice as Introduction to Bracha Ettinger and the Concepts of Matrix and Metramorphosis . Theory, Culture & Society . en . 21 . 1 . 5–65 . 10.1177/0263276404040479 . 0263-2764.
  62. [Griselda Pollock]
  63. Bracha L. Ettinger, "Fascinance. The Woman-to-woman (Girl-to-m/Other) Matrixial Feminine Difference", Psychoanalysis and the Image. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
  64. Bracha L. Ettinger, Matrix. Halal(a) – Lapsus. Notes on Painting, 1985–1992. Oxford: MoMA, 1993. Reprinted in: Artworking, 2000.
  65. Bracha L. Ettinger, "Matrix and Metramorphosis." Differences. Vol. 4, nº 3, 1992.
  66. Bracha L. Ettinger, "From Proto-ethical Compassion to Responsibility: Besidedness, and the three Primal Mother-Phantasies of Not-enoughness, Devouring and Abandonment", Athena Philosophical Studies. Vol. 2 (Vilnius: Versus, 2006), pp. 100–135.
  67. Bracha L. Ettinger, “Uncanny Awe, Uncanny Compassion and Matrixial Transjectivity beyond Uncanny Anxiety”, FLS, Volume XXXVIII, 2011.
  68. Bracha L. Ettinger, "Diotima and the Matrixial Transference: Psychoanalytical Encounter-Event as Pregnancy in Beauty." In: Van der Merwe, Chris N., and Viljoen, Hein, eds. Across the Threshold: Explorations of Liminality in Literature. NY: Peter Lang & Potchefstroom: Literator, 2007.
  69. Bracha L. Ettinger, "Wit(h)nessing Trauma and the Matrixial Gaze: From Phantasm to Trauma, from Phallic Structure to Matrixial Sphere." Parallax 21. Vol. 7, nº 4: 89–114, 2001.
  70. Bracha L. Ettinger, "Weaving a Woman Artist With-in the Matrixial Encounter-Event", Theory, Culture and Society. Vol. 21 (1): 69–94, 2004.
  71. Lyotard, Jean-François (1993). "Anima Minima". Printed as "Des traces diffractées" / "Diffracted Traces." (“Anima Minima”), in: Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Jean-François Lyotard, Griselda Pollock. Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger: Halala – Autistwork. Aix en Provence: Cité du Livre & Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1995.
  72. Lyotard, Jean-François. "L'anamnèse" (1995). In: Mazin, Victor, Turkina, Olessia, and Seppala, Marketta, eds. Doctor and Patient. Memory and Amnesia. Ylojarvi: Pori Art Museum Publications, 1997.
  73. Web site: Members of the Institute. taicp.org. TAICP. 3 September 2015.
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  75. Bracha L. Ettinger, "What is Intelligence". Spike Art Magazine, vol 77: 36-37, 2023.
  76. Bracha L. Ettinger, "Uncanny Awe, Uncanny Compassion and Matrixial Transjectivity beyond Uncanny Anxiety", FLS, Volume XXXVIII, 2011.
  77. Bracha L. Ettinger, "The Sublime and Beauty Beyond Uncanny Anxiety." In: Dombois, Florian, Mareis, Claudia, Meta Bauer, Ute, and Schwab, Michael, eds. Intellectual Birdhouse: Art Practice as Research. London: Koenig, pp. 205-231, 2011.
  78. Bracha L. Ettinger in conversation with Emmanuel Lévinas. Time is the Breath of the Spirit. Lim. ed. Oxford: MOMA, 1993.
  79. Bracha L. Ettinger in conversation with Emmanuel Lévinas. What Would Eurydice Say. Stedelijk Museum print, 1997; Reprinted at Athena n.2, 2006.
  80. Pollock, Griselda. Art in the Time-Space of Memory and Migration: Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud and Bracha L. Ettinger in the Freud Museum. Wild Pansy Press & London: Freud Museum, 2013.
  81. de Zegher, Catherine. Inside the Visible. MIT Press, 1996.
  82. Vandenbroeck, P. Azeta. Paris: Flammarion, 2000.
  83. Pollock, Griselda. "Abandoned at the Mouth of Hell" In: Florence, P., and Pollock, G., eds. Looking Back to the Future. NY: G&B New Arts Press, 2001.
  84. Theory, Culture and Society. Vol. 21 (1). 2004.
  85. Vandenbroeck, P. A Glimpse of the Cocealed. Royal Museum of Fine Art Antwerp, 2017.
  86. Gutierrez-Albilla, J., Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodovar. Edinburch University Press, 2017.
  87. Bracha L. Ettinger, "Matrixial Trans-subjectivity" in: Problematizing Global Knowledge. Theory, Culture and Society, vol 23, Numbers 2–3, 2006; ISSN 0263-2764
  88. “Carriance, Copoiesis and the Subreal.” In: Saltwater. Theory of Thought Forms. 14th Istanbul Biennial Catalogue. Edited by Carolyn Christov Bokargiev, 2015. Printed also in: Bracha L. Ettinger. A α א And My Heart Wound-Space.
  89. Ettinger, Bracha Lichtnberg, Matrix. Halala - Lapsus. Notes on Painting 1985-1992. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1993
  90. Ettinger, Bracha L., Matrixial Subjectivity, Aesthetics, Ethics. Vol I: 1990-2000, edited by Griselda Pollock. Pelgrave - Macmillan (2000)
  91. Ettinger, Bracha L., PROTO-ÉTICA MATRICIAL, essays from the 1990 translated by Julián Gutiérrrez Albilla, Gedisa Editorial, 2019.
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  93. The Matrixial Borderspace, University of Minnesota Press 2006, edited by Brian Massumi and foreword by Judith Butler and Griselda Pollock; Upress relevant page.
  94. Mainly: "From Proto-ethical Compassion to Responsibility", "Fascinance" and "Com-passionate Co-response-ability, Initiation in Jointness, and the link x of Matrixial Virtuality". All published in 2006 — see list of recent publications.
  95. Bracha L. Ettinger, "Diotima and the Matrixial Transference: Psychoanalytical Encounter-Event as Pregnancy in Beauty." In: Van der Merwe, Chris N., and Viljoen, Hein, eds. Across the Threshold: Explorations of Liminality in Literature. New York: Peter Lang & Potchefstroom: Literator (2007);
  96. Bracha L. Ettinger, "From Proto-ethical Compassion to Responsibility: Besideness, and the three Primal Mother-Phantasies of Not-enoughness, Devouring and Abandonment". In: Athena: Philosophical Studies. Vol. 2 (Vilnius: Versus). 2006. pp. 100–135; ISSN 1822-5047.
  97. Bracha L. Ettinger, "Laius Complex and Shocks of Maternality. Reading Franz Kafka and Sylvia Plath", Interdisciplinary Handbook of Trauma and Culture, Yochai Ataria, David Gurevitz, Haviva Pedaya, Yuval Neria, eds., New York and Heidelberg: Springer (2016)
  98. Bracha L. Ettinger, "And My Heart Wound-space With-in Me. The Space of Carriance" In: And My Heart Wound Space, Leeds: Wild Pansy Press and 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015);
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  104. Hadas Levav "Alone in El Arish", iaf.org. 1 February 2018.
  105. המרפאה הניידת של רופאים לזכויות אדם . he . YouTube.
  106. Ettinger, Bracha L., Matrix et le voyage a Jerusalem de C.B., 1991
  107. Glowacka, Dorota. "Lyotard and Eurydice: The Anamnesis of the Feminine", Gender After Lyotard. NY: SUNY Press, 2007.
  108. Edmond Jabès in conversation with Bracha L. Ettinger (1990). A Threshold Where We are Afraid. Translated by Annemarie Hamad and Scott Lerner. MOMA, Oxford (1993);
  109. Emmanuel Levinas in conversation with Bracha L. Ettinger (1991–1993). Time is the Breath of the Spirit. Translated by C. Ducker and J. Simas. MOMA (Museum of Modern Art), Oxford, 1993;
  110. Victor Malsey, Uwe Raseh, Peter Rautmann, Nicolas Schalz, Rosi Huhn, Passages. D'après Walter Benjamin / Passagen. Nach Walter Benjamin. Mainz: Herman Schmidt, 1992.
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  113. Griselda Pollock, Inscriptions in the feminine. In: Inside the Visible edited by Catherine de Zegher. MIT Press (1996)