Taboo Subjects: Race, Sex, And Psychoanalysis - Couverture souple

Bergner, Gwen

 
9780816640683: Taboo Subjects: Race, Sex, And Psychoanalysis
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0816640688 ISBN 13 : 9780816640683
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2005

Synopsis

In American literature, a traumatic scene of racial and sexual awakening - frequently involving photographs, mirrors, or acts of witnessing - often precipitates a character's "discovery" of racial identity. Similarly, in the annals of psychoanalysis, notions of self and sexual identity often arise from visual trauma such as the mirror stage and primal scene. Noting this parallel between specular births of racial and sexual subjectivity, Gwen Bergner uses a comparative analysis of psychoanalytic theory and American literature to develop a theory of racialization - the process through which individuals assume an identity as black or white. Examining the primal scenes of double consciousness in works by Frederick Douglass, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison, among others, alongside the formative visual traumas of psychoanalytic theory of Lacan and Freud, Taboo Subjects reveals how literature disrupts psychoanalysis's conventional models of race and gender identification, forcing a reconfiguration of many foundational psychoanalytic texts. And from psychoanalysis Bergner derives a critical vocabulary for theorizing racialization as it intersects with sex and gender, for both black and white Americans.

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À propos de l?auteur

Gwen Bergner is associate professor of English at West Virginia University. She is a contributor to The Psychoanalysis of Race and Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives, and served as coeditor of Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture from 1991 to 1993.

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Éditeur
University of Minnesota Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0816640688
ISBN 13 
9780816640683
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
244
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  081664067X ISBN 13 :  9780816640676
Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2005
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