Colonization of Psychic Space A Psychoanalytic Social Theory of Oppression

Name: Colonization of Psychic Space A Psychoanalytic Social Theory of Oppression
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ISBN: 9780816644742

ISBN-10: 0816644748

ISBN-13: 9780816644742

Edition: 2004

Authors: Kelly Oliver

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Arguing that we cannot explain the development of individuality or subjectivity apart from its social context, Kelly Oliver makes a powerful case for recognizing the social aspects of alienation and the psychological aspects of oppression.

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List price: $26.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 10/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.85" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Kelly Oliver is associate professor of philosophy and women's studies at SUNY, Stony Brook. She is the author of Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers (1998), Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture (1997), and Womanizing Nietzsche: Philosophy's Relations to "the Feminine" (1995).



Introduction : why turn to psychoanalysis for a social theory of oppression?



Alienation and its double



Alienation as perverse privilege of the modern subject



Alienation's double as burden of the othered subject



The secretion of race and fluidity of resistance



Colonial abjection and transmission of affect



Humanism beyond the economy of property



Fluidity of power



Social melancholy and psychic space



The affects of oppression



The depressed sex



Sublimation and idealization



Revolt, singularity, and forgiveness



Revolt and singularity



Forgiveness and subjectivity


Conclusion : ethics of psychoanalysis : or, forgiveness as an alternative to alienation