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The colonization of psychic space : a psychoanalytic social theory of oppression / Kelly Oliver.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2004Description: xxiv, 245 sISBN:
  • 081664473X
  • 0816644748
  • 9780816644742
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.54 23/swe
Contents:
Introduction : why turn to psychoanalysis for a social theory of oppression? -- European alienation as the perverse privilege of the modern subject -- Alienation's double as the burden of the othered subject -- Colonial abjection and the transmission of affect -- Humanism beyond the economy of property -- The fluidity of power -- The affects of oppression -- The depressed sex -- Sublimation and subjectivity -- Idealization, revolt, and singularity -- Forgiveness and subjectivity -- Conclusion : the ethics of psychoanalysis; or, forgiveness as an alternative to alienation.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : why turn to psychoanalysis for a social theory of oppression? -- European alienation as the perverse privilege of the modern subject -- Alienation's double as the burden of the othered subject -- Colonial abjection and the transmission of affect -- Humanism beyond the economy of property -- The fluidity of power -- The affects of oppression -- The depressed sex -- Sublimation and subjectivity -- Idealization, revolt, and singularity -- Forgiveness and subjectivity -- Conclusion : the ethics of psychoanalysis; or, forgiveness as an alternative to alienation.