The Psychoanalysis of Race

Front Cover
Christopher Lane
Columbia University Press, 1998 - Literary Collections - 445 pages

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 direction----that of unconscious fantasies and identities----offering perspectives from a variety of leading figures in many fields.

 

Contents

Human Diversity and the Sexual Relation
41
Geopsychoanalysis and the rest of the world
65
Thus Spake the Subaltern Postcolonial Criticism and the Scene of Desire
91
Uncanny Foreigners Does the Subaltern Speak Through Julia Kristeva?
120
A Question of Accent Ethnicity and Transference
139
Love Thy Neighbor? No Thanks
154
Schizoanalysis of Race
176
History and the Origins of Racism
191
Savage Ecstasy Colonialism and the Death Drive
282
The Germs of Empires Heart of Darkness Colonial Trauma and the Historiography of AIDS
305
Psychoanalysis and Race an Uncertain Conjunction
331
Wulf Sachss Black Hamlet
333
The Comedy of Domination Psychoanalysis and the Conceit of Whiteness
353
Hitting A Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick Seraph on the Suwanee Zora Neale Hurstons Whiteface Novel
380
Nightmare of the Uncoordinated Whitefolk Race Psychoanalysis and H Ds Borderline
395
Bonding Over Phobia
417

Ethnos and Circumcision in the Pauline Tradition A Psychoanalytic Exegesis
193
What Does a Jew Want? or The Political Meaning of the Phallus
211
Myths of Masculinity The Oedipus Complex and Douglasss 1845 Narrative
241
Nat Turners Thing
261
Contributors
431
Index
435
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Popular passages

Page 5 - As a result, their neighbour is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object, but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and to kill him.

About the author (1998)

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.