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‘Museums on prescription’: Reparative logic and the ethical dilemma of curating ambivalence
This article provides an analysis of the prescription of museum visits as a form of preventative and remedial health care within Rx: Community, a 2018–2019 pilot project for social prescription based in Ontario, Canada. I turn to Melanie Klein’s psychoanalytic framework to position ‘museums-on-presc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9081666/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41282-022-00276-2 |
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description | This article provides an analysis of the prescription of museum visits as a form of preventative and remedial health care within Rx: Community, a 2018–2019 pilot project for social prescription based in Ontario, Canada. I turn to Melanie Klein’s psychoanalytic framework to position ‘museums-on-prescription’ as a redemptive strategy of museology’s foundational paranoid and manic reparative logic. By situating this within the representational specificity of the Canadian context, this article ultimately critiques the museum’s prescribability as a defence against the museum’s inherent ambivalence – how its purported goodness is inextricable from its historical and ongoing role as a settler colonial nation-building institution. |
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spelling | pubmed-90816662022-05-09 ‘Museums on prescription’: Reparative logic and the ethical dilemma of curating ambivalence Ritchie, Nicole Psychoanal Cult Soc Original Article This article provides an analysis of the prescription of museum visits as a form of preventative and remedial health care within Rx: Community, a 2018–2019 pilot project for social prescription based in Ontario, Canada. I turn to Melanie Klein’s psychoanalytic framework to position ‘museums-on-prescription’ as a redemptive strategy of museology’s foundational paranoid and manic reparative logic. By situating this within the representational specificity of the Canadian context, this article ultimately critiques the museum’s prescribability as a defence against the museum’s inherent ambivalence – how its purported goodness is inextricable from its historical and ongoing role as a settler colonial nation-building institution. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2022-05-09 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9081666/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41282-022-00276-2 Text en © The Author(s) under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Ritchie, Nicole ‘Museums on prescription’: Reparative logic and the ethical dilemma of curating ambivalence |
title | ‘Museums on prescription’: Reparative logic and the ethical dilemma of curating ambivalence |
title_full | ‘Museums on prescription’: Reparative logic and the ethical dilemma of curating ambivalence |
title_fullStr | ‘Museums on prescription’: Reparative logic and the ethical dilemma of curating ambivalence |
title_full_unstemmed | ‘Museums on prescription’: Reparative logic and the ethical dilemma of curating ambivalence |
title_short | ‘Museums on prescription’: Reparative logic and the ethical dilemma of curating ambivalence |
title_sort | ‘museums on prescription’: reparative logic and the ethical dilemma of curating ambivalence |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9081666/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41282-022-00276-2 |
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