The colonization of psychic space : a psychoanalytic social theory of oppression /
Kelly Oliver.
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota P., 2004.
- xxiv, 245 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : why turn to psychoanalysis for a social theory of oppression? -- Alienation as the perverse privilege of the modern subject -- Alienation's double as the burden of the othered subject -- Colonial abjection and transmission of affect -- Humanism beyond the economy of property -- Fluidity of power -- The affects of oppression -- The depressed sex -- Sublimation and idealization -- Revolt and singularity -- Forgiveness and subjectivity -- Conclusion : ethics of psychoanalysis; or, forgiveness as an alternative to alienation.
0816644748 (pbk.)
Oppression (Psychology). Dominance (Psychology). Alienation (Philosophy). Social psychology.