Citation

Danylevich T. J. Bioeth. Inq. 2016; 13(4): 507-514.

Affiliation

Department of English, The George Washington University, 636 Phillips Hall, 801 22nd St., NW, Washington, DC, 20052, USA. theodora@gwu.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago)

DOI

10.1007/s11673-016-9739-8

PMID

27468830

Abstract

This article reads Malu De Martino's 2010 film Como Esqueçer (How to Forget) as a case study in self-harm as a mode of expression and self-inquiry. Drawing on disability and queer theory, psychoanalysis, and sociology of medicine, the author argues that How to Forget charts a "crip" epistemology of self-harm and theorizes a "social self." That is to say, the film models an orientation towards self-harm that offers a coalitional and social therapeutic understanding. Based on this reading, the author suggests the application of practices of knowing-with, or knowing-in-relation as "cripistemology" to a broader therapeutic, research, and lay context.

Language: en