(Post)apartheid Conditions - Psychoanalysis and Social Formation (Hardcover, New)

What are the psychical mechanisms that underlie a given social formation? (Post)apartheid Conditions investigates this question by exploring a series of psychosocial topics - the body, space-identity, whiteness, racism and nostalgia - within a specific socio-historical context. The South African situation, one of both social transformation and historical stasis, provides the opportunity to explore how a number of psychoanalytic concepts - the uncanny, fantasy, melancholia, working through, retroaction - function at a societal level, at turns impeding and facilitating political change. Drawing on material collected by the Apartheid Archive Project, and the writings of Sara Ahmed, Steve Biko, Judith Butler, Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Zižek, this book is of interest both to a general Psychosocial Studies audience and to readers interested in the cultural history of South Africa.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in the Psychosocial
Release date:	August 2013
First published:	August 2013
Authors:	D. Hook
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	242
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-03299-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General Promotions
LSN:	1-137-03299-5
Barcode:	9781137032997

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