I'm a specialist in the long 19th century in Haiti and continental France, with interdisciplinary engagement in neuroscience, global health, and health humanities.
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DEBORAH JENSON is professor of Romance studies and global health at Duke University and a former ... more DEBORAH JENSON is professor of Romance studies and global health at Duke University and a former director of the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Haiti Lab, and the Health Humanities Lab at Duke. Her work interweaves long-nineteenth-century French and Caribbean studies with decolonial approaches to health and cognition. Her current book project, “A Neural Speculum Mundi: Essays on Global Mimesis,” bridges previous publications on social mimesis in postrevolutionary France and Haiti, global psychoanalysis, and representation in the humanities and neuroscience to chronicle a Caribbean, Latin American, and disability studies retheorization of mind and matter. [The title “The CeremonyMust Be Found”] here refers to the fact that once these structural oppositions have been put into place, they must then function according to the laws applicable to all human systems. . . . They are thus the very condition of the collective behaviors through which each human system realizes itself as such a system. . . . The ceremonies therefore cannot be found for the doctors of philosophy to wed the earth to the moon, for Othello to remain wedded to Desdemona. —Sylvia Wynter, “The Ceremony Must Be Found: After Humanism” (1984; my italics)
Background: Cervical visualization is critical for a wide array of reproductive health maintenanc... more Background: Cervical visualization is critical for a wide array of reproductive health maintenance procedures. Yet, it has largely been limited to clinical providers, who utilize the speculum to access the cervix for diagnostic or treatment purposes. Self-cervical visualization, using the speculum and a mirror, has been attempted, but is often characterized as painful, awkward, and uncomfortable. We have developed a novel speculum-free device, the Callascope, that enables self-cervical visualization and image capture without clinician assistance. Self-cervical visualization has immense potential for increased confidence in knowing one's body, seeking help from a provider, and feeling empowered to take charge of one's own reproductive health. Additionally, self-cervical visualization could enable access to home-based basic reproductive health applications, such as intrauterine device placement monitoring, and eventually preliminary self-cervical cancer screening using contrast-agent application in combination with HPV self-sampling. Methods: This mixed-methods study involved training healthy volunteers (n=12) to use the Callascope at home to assess ease-of-use and feasibility of imaging their cervix without clinician guidance. This involved (1) on-site training at the study site, followed by initial self-imaging of the cervix, (2) self-imaging at home, and (3) an optional audio reflection. Results: The on-site training examinations resulted in 83% of participants (10 out of 12) visualizing their cervix, upon their first attempt. During the home examinations, 92% (11 out of 12) participants visualized their cervix. Overall, all participants captured at least one image of their cervix and would recommend the Callascope to others. Audio reflections showed high acceptability with participants described the Callascope experience as “comfortable”, “easy to use”, “empowering”, and “fascinating”. Conclusion: We have shown high acceptability and feasibility of the Callascope for person-centered, home-based, comfortable, and cost-effective self-cervical visualization and image capture. Keywords: Cervix Imaging; Speculum-Free; Home-Based; Cervical Cancer
<p>'Adrien and Marcel Proust: Fathering Neurasthenic Memory', written by Deborah Je... more <p>'Adrien and Marcel Proust: Fathering Neurasthenic Memory', written by Deborah Jenson, offers a reinvestment in Proust and foregrounds ideas of Proust as a memory icon by reading the 'fictions of the son' against the 'theories of the father.' In refiguring Marcel Proust as a 'memory patient,' Jenson argues that the author's 'singular attention to … the complex storage and retrieval engineering of memory processes' was developed through his relationship to his father, a theorist of neurasthenic memory.</p>
Iconoclasm - setting wounds in stone at the Musee des Monuments Francais, 1795-1816 transposition... more Iconoclasm - setting wounds in stone at the Musee des Monuments Francais, 1795-1816 transpositionality - the political gets personal in Constant's "C cile" plagiarism - Duras, Desbordes-Valmore, and the scandalous potency of the woman author "Harmony" - Lamartine's social pain analogy - slavery to duplicity in Sand's "Indiana" fetishism - thinking with things in Flaubert's "Un Coeur simple". Epilogue: French Romanticism - Post-traumatic Utopia/ Post-Utopian trauma.
Deborah Jenson - Editor's Preface Nick Nesbitt - The Idea of 1804 Christopher L. Miller - For... more Deborah Jenson - Editor's Preface Nick Nesbitt - The Idea of 1804 Christopher L. Miller - Forget Haiti - Baron Roger and The New Africa Chris Bongie - "Monotonies of History" - Baron Vastey and the Mulatto Legend of Derek Walcott's Haitian Trilogy Doris Kadish - Haiti and Abolitionism in 1825 - The Example of Sophie Doin Daniel Desormeaux - The First of the (Black) Memorialists - Toussaint Louverture Albert Valdman - Haitian Creole at the Dawn of Independence Deborah Jenson - From the Kidnapping(s) of the Louvertures to the Alleged Kidnapping of Aristide - Legacies of Slavery in the Post/Colonial World.
... anthony appiah&#x27;s 2006 Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, which in turn... more ... anthony appiah&#x27;s 2006 Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, which in turn recalls the ... century decadent salomé texts, the ceaseless shifts of people and power through Mediterranean spaces ... is not double; it has instead the plurality of shards in a broken kaleidoscope. ...
Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Globalizing the Unconscious / Warwick Anderson, Deborah Jenson,... more Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Globalizing the Unconscious / Warwick Anderson, Deborah Jenson, and Richard C. Keller 1 Part I. Ethnohistory, Colonialism, and the Cosmopolitan Psychoanalytic Subject 1. Sovereignty in Crisis / John D. Cash 21 2. Denial, La Crypte, and Magic: Contributions to the Global Unconscious from Late Colonial French West African Psychiatry / Alice Bullard 43 3. Geza Rohein and the Australian Aborigine: Psychoanalytic Anthropology during the Interwar Years / Joy Damousi 75 4. Colonial Dominions with the Psychoanalytic Couch: Synergies of Freudian Theory with Bengali Hindu Thought and Practices in British India / Christiane Hartnack 97 5. Psychoanalysis, Race Relations, and National Identity: The Reception of Psychoanalysis in Brazil, 1910 to 1940 / Mariano Ben Plotkin 113 Part II. Trauma, Subjectivity, Sovereignty: Psychoanalysis and Postcolonial Critique 6. The Totem Vanishes, the Hordes Revolt: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of the Indonesian Struggle for Independence / Hans Pols 141 7. Placing Haiti in Geopsychoanalysis Space: Toward a Postcolonial Concept of Traumatic Mimesis / Deborah Jensen 167 8. Colonial Madness and the Poetics of Suffering: Structural Violence and Kateb Yacine / Richard C. Keller 199 9. Ethnopsychiatry and the Postcolonial Encounter: A French Psychopolitics of Otherness / Didier Fassin 223 Concluding Remarks: Hope, Demand, and the Perpetual / Ranjana Khanna 247 Bibliography 265 Contributors 295 Index 299
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DEBORAH JENSON is professor of Romance studies and global health at Duke University and a former ... more DEBORAH JENSON is professor of Romance studies and global health at Duke University and a former director of the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Haiti Lab, and the Health Humanities Lab at Duke. Her work interweaves long-nineteenth-century French and Caribbean studies with decolonial approaches to health and cognition. Her current book project, “A Neural Speculum Mundi: Essays on Global Mimesis,” bridges previous publications on social mimesis in postrevolutionary France and Haiti, global psychoanalysis, and representation in the humanities and neuroscience to chronicle a Caribbean, Latin American, and disability studies retheorization of mind and matter. [The title “The CeremonyMust Be Found”] here refers to the fact that once these structural oppositions have been put into place, they must then function according to the laws applicable to all human systems. . . . They are thus the very condition of the collective behaviors through which each human system realizes itself as such a system. . . . The ceremonies therefore cannot be found for the doctors of philosophy to wed the earth to the moon, for Othello to remain wedded to Desdemona. —Sylvia Wynter, “The Ceremony Must Be Found: After Humanism” (1984; my italics)
Background: Cervical visualization is critical for a wide array of reproductive health maintenanc... more Background: Cervical visualization is critical for a wide array of reproductive health maintenance procedures. Yet, it has largely been limited to clinical providers, who utilize the speculum to access the cervix for diagnostic or treatment purposes. Self-cervical visualization, using the speculum and a mirror, has been attempted, but is often characterized as painful, awkward, and uncomfortable. We have developed a novel speculum-free device, the Callascope, that enables self-cervical visualization and image capture without clinician assistance. Self-cervical visualization has immense potential for increased confidence in knowing one&#39;s body, seeking help from a provider, and feeling empowered to take charge of one&#39;s own reproductive health. Additionally, self-cervical visualization could enable access to home-based basic reproductive health applications, such as intrauterine device placement monitoring, and eventually preliminary self-cervical cancer screening using contrast-agent application in combination with HPV self-sampling. Methods: This mixed-methods study involved training healthy volunteers (n=12) to use the Callascope at home to assess ease-of-use and feasibility of imaging their cervix without clinician guidance. This involved (1) on-site training at the study site, followed by initial self-imaging of the cervix, (2) self-imaging at home, and (3) an optional audio reflection. Results: The on-site training examinations resulted in 83% of participants (10 out of 12) visualizing their cervix, upon their first attempt. During the home examinations, 92% (11 out of 12) participants visualized their cervix. Overall, all participants captured at least one image of their cervix and would recommend the Callascope to others. Audio reflections showed high acceptability with participants described the Callascope experience as “comfortable”, “easy to use”, “empowering”, and “fascinating”. Conclusion: We have shown high acceptability and feasibility of the Callascope for person-centered, home-based, comfortable, and cost-effective self-cervical visualization and image capture. Keywords: Cervix Imaging; Speculum-Free; Home-Based; Cervical Cancer
<p>'Adrien and Marcel Proust: Fathering Neurasthenic Memory', written by Deborah Je... more <p>'Adrien and Marcel Proust: Fathering Neurasthenic Memory', written by Deborah Jenson, offers a reinvestment in Proust and foregrounds ideas of Proust as a memory icon by reading the 'fictions of the son' against the 'theories of the father.' In refiguring Marcel Proust as a 'memory patient,' Jenson argues that the author's 'singular attention to … the complex storage and retrieval engineering of memory processes' was developed through his relationship to his father, a theorist of neurasthenic memory.</p>
Iconoclasm - setting wounds in stone at the Musee des Monuments Francais, 1795-1816 transposition... more Iconoclasm - setting wounds in stone at the Musee des Monuments Francais, 1795-1816 transpositionality - the political gets personal in Constant's "C cile" plagiarism - Duras, Desbordes-Valmore, and the scandalous potency of the woman author "Harmony" - Lamartine's social pain analogy - slavery to duplicity in Sand's "Indiana" fetishism - thinking with things in Flaubert's "Un Coeur simple". Epilogue: French Romanticism - Post-traumatic Utopia/ Post-Utopian trauma.
Deborah Jenson - Editor's Preface Nick Nesbitt - The Idea of 1804 Christopher L. Miller - For... more Deborah Jenson - Editor's Preface Nick Nesbitt - The Idea of 1804 Christopher L. Miller - Forget Haiti - Baron Roger and The New Africa Chris Bongie - "Monotonies of History" - Baron Vastey and the Mulatto Legend of Derek Walcott's Haitian Trilogy Doris Kadish - Haiti and Abolitionism in 1825 - The Example of Sophie Doin Daniel Desormeaux - The First of the (Black) Memorialists - Toussaint Louverture Albert Valdman - Haitian Creole at the Dawn of Independence Deborah Jenson - From the Kidnapping(s) of the Louvertures to the Alleged Kidnapping of Aristide - Legacies of Slavery in the Post/Colonial World.
... anthony appiah&#x27;s 2006 Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, which in turn... more ... anthony appiah&#x27;s 2006 Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, which in turn recalls the ... century decadent salomé texts, the ceaseless shifts of people and power through Mediterranean spaces ... is not double; it has instead the plurality of shards in a broken kaleidoscope. ...
Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Globalizing the Unconscious / Warwick Anderson, Deborah Jenson,... more Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Globalizing the Unconscious / Warwick Anderson, Deborah Jenson, and Richard C. Keller 1 Part I. Ethnohistory, Colonialism, and the Cosmopolitan Psychoanalytic Subject 1. Sovereignty in Crisis / John D. Cash 21 2. Denial, La Crypte, and Magic: Contributions to the Global Unconscious from Late Colonial French West African Psychiatry / Alice Bullard 43 3. Geza Rohein and the Australian Aborigine: Psychoanalytic Anthropology during the Interwar Years / Joy Damousi 75 4. Colonial Dominions with the Psychoanalytic Couch: Synergies of Freudian Theory with Bengali Hindu Thought and Practices in British India / Christiane Hartnack 97 5. Psychoanalysis, Race Relations, and National Identity: The Reception of Psychoanalysis in Brazil, 1910 to 1940 / Mariano Ben Plotkin 113 Part II. Trauma, Subjectivity, Sovereignty: Psychoanalysis and Postcolonial Critique 6. The Totem Vanishes, the Hordes Revolt: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of the Indonesian Struggle for Independence / Hans Pols 141 7. Placing Haiti in Geopsychoanalysis Space: Toward a Postcolonial Concept of Traumatic Mimesis / Deborah Jensen 167 8. Colonial Madness and the Poetics of Suffering: Structural Violence and Kateb Yacine / Richard C. Keller 199 9. Ethnopsychiatry and the Postcolonial Encounter: A French Psychopolitics of Otherness / Didier Fassin 223 Concluding Remarks: Hope, Demand, and the Perpetual / Ranjana Khanna 247 Bibliography 265 Contributors 295 Index 299
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