Taboo Subjects: Race, Sex, And Psychoanalysis - Rilegato

Bergner, Gwen

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ISBN 10: 081664067X ISBN 13: 9780816640676

Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2005

Riassunto

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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Book by Bergner Gwen

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• Editore: Univ of Minnesota Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 081664067X
• ISBN 13: 9780816640676
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 209