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Special Issue of Textual Practice: Challenging Intimacies: Legacies of Psychoanalysis

This special edition of Textual Practice, edited and introduced by Jennifer Cooke, was one of the outcomes of the international 3-day conference Cooke organised at Loughborough in 2010, entitled “Writings of Intimacy in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries”. A further follow-up networking event, “Scenes of Intimacy”, was held at the Institute for Psychoanalysis in June 2013. This journal edition features an interview with one of the keynote speakers from the original conference (Professor Lauren Berlant); Professor Leo Bersani’s keynote speech; and essays developed out of work presented at the conference. Also developed from the conference was the separate volume of essays, edited by Cooke, Scenes of Intimacy: Reading, Writing, and Theorising Contemporary Literature.

The research dimension which informs this output thus includes (a) the original creation of the symposium network and (b) a high level of editorial input, both into individual articles and into the composition of the special edition as a coherent whole, (c) the interview between Berlant and Cooke (4,497 words), which is informed by Cooke’s engagement with Berlant’s research; as well as (d) the researching and writing of the article itself, entitled ‘Intimacy, The Good Life, and Instructive Psychoanalytic Errors’ (9,686 words).