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- Title
"Wherever I Am, I Am What Is Missing".
- Authors
Daiello, Vittoria S.
- Abstract
Purpose Critical writing practices in and around popular visual culture are under-researched and theorized in the visual arts education discipline. Addressing the research gap in visual arts education, this essay provides a theoretical reflection on a case study of undergraduate students' writing in the Criticizing Television course. As an exemplar of a psychoanalytic approach to research of student writing, the essay foregrounds the generative, analytic qualities of writing, articulating in the process an alternative construction of research validity. Design/Methodology/Approach This essay is a theoretical reflection on a qualitative, interpretive case study of student television criticism writing. A psychoanalytically-informed methodology is derived from contemporary Lacanian and relational psychoanalysis theories. Data include student interviews, essays, survey, and the instructor-researcher's reflexive journal. The analytic concept peripheral vision is developed to articulate, through writing, drawing, and reflection, the complexities inherent in theorizing subjectivity and representing research validity. Findings The case study reveals an irresolvable conflict: data that appear as signifiers of 'evidence' or 'intelligibility' may be the very mechanism that suppresses un-nameable affect, in the service of maintaining a unified, coherent subjectivity. The research finds that the impasses occurring in and around writing can be understood as the necessary gaps around which language creates an absent-presence, the traces of the writer's and researcher's unconscious. The study validates the presence of the unconscious in writing and its research, and articulates a method for re-presenting the slippery data of the unconscious as an expression of research validity.
- Subjects
CREATIVE writing education in universities &; colleges; PSYCHOANALYSIS; LACAN, Jacques, 1901-1981; TELEVISION criticism; LANGUAGE arts (Higher)
- Publication
Creative Approaches to Research, 2014, Vol 7, Issue 1, p46
- ISSN
1835-9442
- Publication type
Essay