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Collu, Samuele

 
9781478029519: Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition
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ISBN 10: 147802951X ISBN 13: 9781478029519
Editorial: Duke University Press, 2026

Sinopsis

Into the Loop asks how, and under what conditions, we can interrupt the repetitions that define us. Drawing from more than 200 hours of ethnographic observations of Systemic couples therapy in Buenos Aires, alongside auto-ethnographic recordings of Samuele Collu’s own hypnotherapy sessions, this study traces the psychic forces that compel people to repeat, interrupt, or drift aside from relational loops. Grounding his analysis in affect theory, psychoanalysis, and phenomenology, Collu examines how identification, affective transmission, compulsive repetition, and hypnosis play out within therapeutic encounters observed by teams of psychotherapists through one-way mirrors and closed-circuit television systems. This focus on visual mediation reveals how screens and observational devices both capture and distort the therapeutic process itself―a dynamic that connects to broader questions about digital media and user-screen relations in contemporary society. Written in an experimental and literary style that moves fluidly between the academic, the personal, and their uncanny in-betweens, Into the Loop offers a unique window into the repetitive cycles that shape our most intimate relationships and the possibilities for transformation within them.

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Samuele Collu is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at McGill University.

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Duke University Press
Año de publicación
2026
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147802951X
ISBN 13 
9781478029519
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Número de páginas
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9781478032946: Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition

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ISBN 10:  1478032944 ISBN 13:  9781478032946
Editorial: Duke University Press, 2026
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