Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
The colonization of psychic space : a psychoanalytic social theory of oppression
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- Kelly Oliver
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
-
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
-
- xxiv, 245 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780816644742, 0816696713, 0816644748, 081664473X, 9780816696710, 9780816644735
- OCLC
- ocn476095601, ocm55131320, ocn228145232
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index.
- Introduction : why turn to psychoanalysis for a social theory of oppression? -- Alienation as the perverse privilege of the modern subject -- Alienation's double as the burden of the othered subject -- Colonial abjection and transmission of affect -- Humanism beyond the economy of property -- Fluidity of power -- The affects of oppression -- The depressed sex -- Sublimation and idealization -- Revolt and singularity -- Forgiveness and subjectivity -- Conclusion : ethics of psychoanalysis; or, forgiveness as an alternative to alienation