Alec Wood

Alec Wood is a PhD student in music. Alec’s research is at the intersection of sound studies, philosophy, and psychology and focuses on questions of mimesis, voice, affect, and subjectivity. His dissertation undergoes a genealogy of the relationship between mimesis and music in dynamic psychiatry and philosophy from animal magnetism to psychoanalysis to recent philosophies of hypnosis. By attending to the way notions of voice, rhythm, melody, and sound are weaved into the very theorization of affective rapport and altered states in general across this literature, this project forwards a conception of subjectivity that is thoroughly musical.

During the 23-24 academic year, Alec received a Chateaubriand Fellowship from the French Embassy to do research in the Sorbonne’s Centre de philosophie contemporaine and Académie de Recherche et Connaissances en Hypnose Ericksonienne.