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Title: The Psychoanalysis of Race by Christopher Lane ISBN: 0-231-10947-4 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: really good
Comment: this is an excellent collection, full of valuable insights and arguments. well worth the money.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lacking the Power to Solve This
Comment: Consider this book, in its thoughtful approach to a socialproblem, possibly the best that anyone could expect to find amongthose who might consider making suggestions to those astute professionals who have the right to think of themselves the most modern of moderns. I doubt if I could ever find a better line than the one addressed by Jacques Derrida, in a plea for specific opposition to the brutal methods adopted by powers in Latin America, on page 81, "and this on the very face of the earth itself." On pages 68 and 69, Derrida made it clear that he considered himself an outsider, who could easily have his remarks "classified and forgotten even more quickly," when he was addressing a professional body on Geopsychoanalysis. Having been born in Africa, Derrida had spent his youth on a continent where "African psychoanalysis was European, structurally defined in the profoundest way by the colonial state apparatus." When I was young, I pictured our contacts with outsiders as the work of missionaries. Removing the notion of evil, as a total triumph of the state of mind of global capitalism must, if it is to consider the problem of race like it would consider anything else, leaves individuals to frame this problem in their own way. On the subject of Africa, Christopher Lane's remarks on "Savage Ecstasy" and Tim Dean's attempt to tie the disease of "Mistah Kurtz" (p. 306) in the famous story, "Heart of Darkness" to "the Historiography of AIDS" leave a distinct impression. For me to understand this book would require a look at the ways in which it treats Frantz Fanon, whom I might consider an agitator. The more one attempts to locate an element of control here, the greater the problem seems to be. Awareness of the ability of those who serve the existing public order as mind doctors to drug, or not to drug, certain individuals (the real power of a doctor's pen, in a world of highly profitable drugs) is of hardly any benefit to a society which would like to obtain as much control as possible over the lives of those who seek any excuse that they can find (my accusation against the agitators of race) to disrupt the operation of power. As well as the picture is framed here, I do not see race as a problem which is likely to find a solution through the actions of individuals who have assumed a professional obligation to classify individuals on the basis of how well they serve the social system. There is a chapter on "The Comedy of Domination" by Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, which looks closely at Freud, a sure sign of "malicious mischief and sly humor." (p.360) This book remains insightful, on a matter which is likely to remain a real problem for those who must deal with personal problems worthy of delicate consideration, throughout.
Rating: 5
Summary: A valuable anthology
Comment: I liked the clarity of these essays, and learned a great deal about prejudice and racial tensions. Nothing I've read so far better explains the problems we're seeing now in the former Yugoslavia and other parts of the world.
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Title: Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, Feminism by Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, Helene Moglen ISBN: 0520206304 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race by Ann Pellegrini ISBN: 0415916860 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian Analysis of Race (Opening Out) by Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks ISBN: 0415192552 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group Pub. Date: 11 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief by Anne Anlin Cheng ISBN: 0195151623 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity by Sharon Patricia Holland ISBN: 0822324997 Publisher: Duke University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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