The Impossible Patient

Amia Srinivasan: Return of the Unconscious, 25 December 2025

... something with this reductionist reflex. It is for this reason that the queer literary theorist Eve KosofskySedgwick, in her essay ‘Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading’, observed that the choice to engage in a hermeneutics of suspicion is ‘ethically very fraught’ and should be seen as a ‘strategic and ...