Oliver, Kelly, 1958-

The colonization of psychic space a psychoanalytic social theory of oppression / [electronic resource] : Kelly Oliver. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004. - xxiv, 245 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-232) and index.

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.


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2009.
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Oppression (Psychology)
Dominance (Psychology)
Alienation (Philosophy)
Social psychology.


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