A link to YNG's research: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/165505/1.hasCoversheetVersion/Final_version_of_Doctorate_with_appendices_April_29.pdf

Here  is a link to Yonat Nitzan-Green's book: http://www.bod.com/index.php?id=3435&objk_id=407999

The Israeli artist and psychoanalyst Bracha L. Ettinger develops a theory of the matrix. This theory considers the womb, as well as other prenatal processes. It does not oppose Freud’s Oedipus model, but rather complements it. In her theory, Ettinger suggests a new conception for subjectivity and its relation to the other, which creates a connection between aesthetic and ethic.

Regarding trauma, aesthetic and ethic Ettinger writes:

‘In art today we are moving from phantasy to trauma. Contemporary aesthetics is moving from the phallic structure to the matrixial sphere. We are carrying, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, enormous traumatic weight, and aesthetic wit(h)nessing in art brings it to culture’s surface. […] The beautiful as accessed via artworks in our era […] carries new possibilities for affective apprehending and produces new artistic effects where aesthetics converges with ethics […] The aesthetic is trauma’s transformed affectability in wit(h)nessing in/by art, beyond time and in different sites and spaces, yet it has ethical and even therapeutic consequences. The new healing potential offered by the idea of wit(h)nessing is ethical, yet profoundly aesthetic, or transferred by aesthetic means.’[1]

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[1] Brian Massumi (ed.), Bracha L. Ettinger, The Matrixial Borderspace, 2006, pp. 147-8.