Authors: Christopher Lane
ISBN-13: 9780231109475, ISBN-10: 0231109474
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: May 1998
Edition: 1st Edition
CHRISTOPHER LANE is associate professor of English at Emory University. He is the author of The Ruling Passion: British Colonial Allegory and the Paradox of Homosexual Desire.
Are divisive political forces the source of the historical persistence of racism and its alarming recurrence in contemporary society? Or are there also subtler, more intractable reasons for racism's irrational power and historical persistence? This collection of essays takes the study of racism into a radically new directionthat of unconscious fantasies and identitiesoffering perspectives from a variety of leading figures in many fields.
Applying a psychoanalytic critique to works of literature, explores what it means today for people to invoke race and ethnicity as concepts organizing their identifications and lives. Highlights the irrational forms of racism to demonstrate that prejudice can coexist with the greatest support for ethnic and cultural diversity. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)
Acknowledgments | ||
The Psychoanalysis of Race: An Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. I | Current Dilemmas: Psychoanalysis and Postcolonialism | |
1 | Human Diversity and the Sexual Relation | 41 |
2 | Geopsychoanalysis: "... and the rest of the world" | 65 |
3 | "Thus Spake the Subaltern": Postcolonial Criticism and the Scene of Desire | 91 |
4 | Uncanny Foreigners: Does the Subaltern Speak Through Julia Kristeva? | 120 |
5 | A Question of Accent: Ethnicity and Transference | 139 |
6 | Love Thy Neighbor? No, Thanks! | 154 |
7 | Schizoanalysis of Race | 176 |
Pt. II | History and the Origins of Racism | |
8 | Ethnos and Circumcision in the Pauline Tradition: A Psychoanalytic Exegesis | 193 |
9 | What Does a Jew Want?; or, The Political Meaning of the Phallus | 211 |
10 | Myths of Masculinity: The Oedipus Complex and Douglass's 1845 Narrative | 241 |
11 | Nat Turner's Thing | 261 |
12 | "Savage Ecstasy": Colonialism and the Death Drive | 282 |
13 | The Germs of Empires: Heart of Darkness, Colonial Trauma, and the Historiography of AIDS | 305 |
Pt. III | Psychoanalysis and Race, an Uncertain Conjunction | |
14 | Wulf Sachs's Black Hamlet | 333 |
15 | The Comedy of Domination: Psychoanalysis and the Conceit of Whiteness | 353 |
16 | Hitting "A Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick": Seraph on the Suwanee, Zora Neale Hurston's Whiteface Novel | 380 |
17 | "Nightmare of the Uncoordinated White-folk": Race, Psychoanalysis, and H. D.'s Borderline | 395 |
18 | Bonding Over Phobia | 417 |
Contributors | 431 | |
Index | 435 |