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The Psychoanalysis of Race
Are divisive political forces the sole source of racism and its 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 in a new direction--that of unconscious fantasies and identifications--offering perspectives from a variety of leading figures in many fields.
Contributors Daniel Boyarin, Jacques Derrida, Alphonso Lingis, Jacqueline Rose, Charles Shepherdson, Claudia Tate, and Slavoj Zizek.
Contributors Daniel Boyarin, Jacques Derrida, Alphonso Lingis, Jacqueline Rose, Charles Shepherdson, Claudia Tate, and Slavoj Zizek.
- GenresPsychoanalysisTheory
445 pages, Paperback
First published May 28, 1998
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About the author
Christopher Lane
10 books7 followersChristopher Lane is a regular contributor to Psychology Today who for many years taught medical humanities, Victorian studies, and the history of medicine at Northwestern University.
He is the author of six books, most recently Surge of Piety: Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life (Yale, 2016), on Peale’s self-described “religio-psychiatric” clinic and movement in the 1950s.
His other books include The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty (Yale, 2011) and the award-winning Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (Yale, 2007) on behind-the-scenes changes to the DSM and the creation of the anxiety disorders between the 1970s and 1990s.
Lane’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Slate, TIME, Chronicle Review, Huffington Post, Daily Beast, and several other newspapers and magazines.
He is the author of six books, most recently Surge of Piety: Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life (Yale, 2016), on Peale’s self-described “religio-psychiatric” clinic and movement in the 1950s.
His other books include The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty (Yale, 2011) and the award-winning Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (Yale, 2007) on behind-the-scenes changes to the DSM and the creation of the anxiety disorders between the 1970s and 1990s.
Lane’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Slate, TIME, Chronicle Review, Huffington Post, Daily Beast, and several other newspapers and magazines.
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