Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s) explores philosophical and psychoanalytic theories, as well as artworks, that show sensible bodily rituals for reviving our social and subjective lives. It informs readers on how to find rituals for syncing ourselves with others and world rhythms.

Jessica Datema, PhD, is professor of Literature at Bergen Community College, USA. Dr Datema also received a creative writing certificate for studies accomplished at the University of Cambridge, and she has written and edited two other books.

Angie Voela, PhD, is senior lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London, UK. She has published several journal articles, including "We Need to Talk About Family: Essays on Neoliberalism, the Family and Popular Culture" and is the author and editor of two previous books.

Introduction: Rhythmic Transformations

Part I: Variable Measures

1. Killing Eve: Inflections of Rebirth and Pathogenesis

2. Repetition to Revolution: Jordan Peele's Us

3. Radical Temporalities of Trauma, Melancholia, and Disaster

Part II: Speed

4. Uncut Gems: Dashing between the Red and the Black

5. Running with Thieves: Baby Driver and The Beat My Heart Skipped

6. Burning: Afterburn and Lawlessness in the Anthropocene

Part III: Slowness

7. "I repeated the routine": The Lacanian Drive in Ling Mäs Severance and COVID-19

8. Richtering Rhythms: Never Look Away