The Interdisciplinary and international research on the affective spaces in British modernism

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25284058
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Seikei University
• Principal Investigator: ENDO FUHITO 成蹊大学, 文学部, 教授 (30248992)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 秦 邦生 青山学院大学, 文学部, 准教授 (00459306) ; 中井 亜佐子 一橋大学, その他の研究科, 教授 (10246001) ; 田尻 芳樹 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 教授 (20251746)
• Research Collaborator: SHAMUDASANI Sonu University College London
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: モダニズム / 情動 / 精神分析 / 近代心理学 / マルクス主義

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project has been an attempt to rehistoricize what is generally termed 'affect theory' in the Anglo-American humanities especially within the contexts of British modernist literature. Worthy of particular mention are a series of our international conferences conducted in English regarding the interrelationships between modernist language and contemporary psychoanalytic discourses. It is in this context that the political possibilities of Marxist aesthetics has also been reexamined. Based upon what has been discussed in those meetings, we are beginning to obtain a new perspective from which to consider what can be called 'anti-psychology' as something in excess of the modern 'psychologization,' representative of which are modern literature and psychology. By definition, this point of view allows us to explore the discursive genealogies of anti-psychology/literature. As a matter of fact, we had an international conference on this topic at University College London in 2015.

Free Research Field

英国モダニズム文学