Title: Social theory, psychoanalysis, and racism /
Authors: Clarke, Simon, 1962-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Sociology; Psychoanalytic Theory; Prejudice; Race Relations psychology; Psychoanalysis and racism; Race Psychological aspects.; Race awareness; Racism Psychological aspects.
Abstract: Bringing together sociological perspectives with psychoanalytic concepts and tools, this text offers a clear and accessible synthesis of varieties of theory, with the aim of clarifying the complex character of racism, discrimination and social exclusion in the contemporary world.
Contents: 1. Sociology, Racism and Psychoanalysis: An Introduction -- 2. The Concept(s) of Race(s) and Racism(s) -- 3. New Racism(s) for Old -- 4. Sociology, Racism and Modernity -- 5. Freud, Racism and Psychoanalysis -- 6. The Frankfurt School: Paranoid Projection and the Persecuted Other -- 7. Colonial Identity and Ethnic Hatred: Fanon, Lacan and Zizek -- 8. Melanie Klein, Racism and Psychoanalysis -- 9. Projection, Projective Identification and Racism -- 10. Conclusion.