The colonization of psychic space
Subtitle: a psychoanalytic social theory of oppression
By: Kelly Oliver.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Oppression (Psychology); Dominance (Psychology); Alienation (Philosophy); Social psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : why turn to psychoanalysis for a social theory of oppression?; title: European alienation as the perverse privilege of the modern subject; title: Alienation's double as the burden of the othered subject; title: Colonial abjection and the transmission of affect; title: Humanism beyond the economy of property; title: The fluidity of power; title: The affects of oppression; title: The depressed sex; title: Sublimation and subjectivity; title: Idealization, revolt, and singularity; title: Forgiveness and subjectivity; title: Conclusion : the ethics of psychoanalysis; or, forgiveness as an alternative to alienation.