The gauche intruder
Subtitle: Freud, Lacan and the white Australian fantasy
By: Jennifer Rutherford.
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Carlton, VIC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: White Australia policy.; National characteristics, Australian.; Aggressiveness -- Australia.; Multiculturalism -- Australia.; Psychoanalysis and culture -- Australia.; Psychoanalysis and racism -- Australia.; Australia -- Social life and customs.; Australia -- Politics and government.
Other titles: Freud, Lacan and the white Australian fantasy
Description: This title traces the formation of an Australian moral code at the heart of white Australian identity. Reflecting on the persistence of this code into the 21st century, it seeks to show how it "has engendered, and continues to engender, not only brutality to others, but brutality to the self".
Notes: Bibliography.
Includes index.