1st Edition
Race and the Unconscious Freudianism in French Caribbean Thought
By Celia Britton
Copyright 2002
124 Pages
by
Routledge
124 Pages
by
Routledge
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Freud is often accused of eurocentrism - of making unjustifiable generalizations on the basis of European family structures. Although French Caribbean intellectuals such as Fanon, Cesaire and Glissant have joined in these criticisms, they have also made strikingly positive use of psychoanalysis. Much intellectual energy has been invested in notions of repression, the Oedipus complex and the... Read more
Introduction; 1: Freud, Surrealism and Ethnography; 2: Politics and Psychosis: The Limits of Psychoanalysis in Peau noire, masques blancs; 3: Psychoanalysis and Social (Dis)order; 4: 'Œdipe noir'?; Conclusion
Biography
Celia Britton
