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Professor Jacqueline Rose FBA, BA (Oxford) Maîtrise (Sorbonne) PhD (London)
Professor

email: j.rose@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7882 8529

Research interests:

• Psychoanalysis
• Modern Literature and Culture
• South African writing
• Zionism and the history and writing of Israel-Palestine

Jacqueline Rose's research focuses on modern subjectivity at the interface of literature, psychoanalysis, and politics, as well as on the history and culture of South Africa and of Israel-Palestine. Her most recent publications are Proust Among the Nations – from Dreyfus to the Middle East (the 2009 Frederick Ives Carpenter Lectures, Chicago University Press, 2012); The Last Resistance (Verso, 2007); The Question of Zion (the Princeton University 2003 Christian Gauss seminars, Princeton University Press and Melbourne University Press, 2005); On Not Being Able to Sleep – psychoanalysis in the modern world (Chatto, 2003); and the novel Albertine (Chatto, 2001) based on her reading and teaching of the writing of Marcel Proust. Conversations with Jacqueline Rose (Seagull Press) was published in 2010 and The Jacqueline Rose Reader, edited by Justin Clemens and Ben Neparstek, in 2011 (Duke University Press).

Earlier publications include studies of children's fiction: The Case of Peter Pan, or, the impossibility of children's fiction (Macmillan, 1984); of Sylvia Plath: The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (Virago, 1991); of war and psychoanalysis: Why War – psychoanalysis, politics and the return to Melanie Klein (Blackwell, 1993). She writes regular reviews for The London Review of Books. Future publications will include writing on the revolutionary, Rosa Luxemburg, and the German Jewish painter, Charlotte Salomon. She is the co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices launched in the UK in 2007 and a fellow of the British Academy.

In collaboration with Professor Daniel Pick of the School of History at Birkbeck, University of London, she has been running a London University-wide Graduate Forum 'Psychoanalytic Thought, History and Political Life' for a number of years.

Publications:

Recent Publications

 

Books

Proust Among the Nations – from Dreyfus to the Middle East (Chicago University Press, 2012)

The Jacqueline Rose Reader, edited by Justin Clemens and Ben Neparstek (Duke University Press, 2011)

Conversations with Jacqueline Rose with Antony Lerman, Henrietta Moore and Stephen Frosh, Supriya Chaudhuri and Aveek Sen (Seagull Press, 2010)

The Last Resistance (Verso, 2007)

Sexuality in the Field of Vision (Radical Thinkers) (Verso, 2006)

The Question of Zion, the Christian Gauss seminars in the Humanities (Princeton University Press, 2004)

On Not Being Able to Sleep: essays on psychoanalysis in the modern world (Chatto and Windus and Princeton University Press, 2003)

Albertine: a novel (Chatto and Windus, 2001; Vintage 2002)

 

Editions

Introduction to Sigmund Freud, Mass Psychology, volume including The Future of an Illusion, Mass Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Moses the Man and Monotheistic Religion (New Penguin Freud, 2004), pp vii-xli

 

Articles etc

'On Rosa Luxemburg', The London Review of Books, 33:12, 16 June 2011

'We have exiled an exile', (on Israeli writer, S Yizhar’s novella, Khirbet Khizeh), The Guardian, 12 March 2011

'Fascism and Fundamentalism', Psychoanalysis and History, 11, 2, 2009

'The Political Edge of Fiction', in Waiting for the Barbarians, edited Muge Sokmen, Basak Ertur and Rasha Salti, (Verso, 2008), pp. 15-29.

'Displacement in Zion', Displacement, Asylum, Migration, Amnesty International Lecture 12th Series, edited by Kate Tunstall (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 159-178

'Response to Edward Said', in Edward Said, Freud and the Non-European, (Verso, 2003), pp 65-79; translated into French, German, Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew with new Preface by Jacqueline Rose; response also translated into German for the Zeitschrift fur psychoanalytische Theorie und Praxis, Vienna (Verlag, 2005)

'Failed State', review article of David Grossman, Death as a Way of Life – Despatches from Jerusalem, and Someone to Run With, London Review of Books, 26:6 (18 March 2004)

'Freud and the rise of Zionism', Essex University Freud Memorial Lecture, abridged version in London Review of Books, 26:13 (8 July 2004), Harpers (September 2004)

'The Body of Evil', Proceedings of the Conference of the Nexus Institute, Brabant, University Tilburg, The Quest for Life –Part 2: 'Evil', Nexus (2003), 96-105; also New Formations, special issue on Intellectual Work, 53 (Summer 2004), 115-129

'Apathy and Accountability – the challenge of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the Intellectual in the Modern World', in The Public Intellectual, ed by Helen Small (Blackwell, 2003), pp 159-179

'On Not Being Able to Sleep', Newsletter of Sigmund Freud Gesellschaft (November 2000) (paper selected from the event to mark the Centenary of The Interpretation of Dreams, published in German and English), 8-31, also published in Zeitchschrift fur psychoanalytische Theorie und Praxis, 16:2 (2001), 149-65