The colonization of psychic space : a psychoanalytic social theory of oppression / Kelly Oliver.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oliver, Kelly, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : why turn to psychoanalysis for a social theory of oppression?
  • European alienation as the perverse privilege of the modern subject
  • Alienation's double as the burden of the othered subject
  • Colonial abjection and the transmission of affect
  • Humanism beyond the economy of property
  • The fluidity of power
  • The affects of oppression
  • The depressed sex
  • Sublimation and subjectivity
  • Idealization, revolt, and singularity
  • Forgiveness and subjectivity
  • Conclusion : the ethics of psychoanalysis; or, forgiveness as an alternative to alienation.