We are, Julia Kristeva writes, strangers to ourselves; and indeed
much of contemporary theory describes the human condition as one of
alienation. Eloquently arguing that we cannot explain the
development of individuality or subjectivity apart from its social
context, Kelly Oliver makes a powerful case for recognizing the
social aspects of alienation and the psychic aspects of oppression.
Oliver's work shows how existentialist and psychoanalytic notions
of alienation cover up specific forms of racist and sexist
alienation that serve as the underside of the human condition. She
reveals that such notions are actually symptomatic of the subject's
anxiety and guilt over the oppression on which his privileged
position rests. Not only does such alienation not embody
subjectivity and humanity, it in fact "undermines them. Asserting
that sublimation and forgiveness--and not alienation--constitute
subjectivity, Oliver explores the complex ways in which the
alienation unique to oppression leads to depression, shame, anger,
or violence; and how these affects can be transformed into agency,
individuality, solidarity, and community.
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