TABOO SUBJECTS Race, Sex & Psychoanalysis by Gwen Bergner 2005 Trade PB

Description: TABOO SUBJECTS Race, Sex and Psychoanalysis Gwen Bergner Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, [2005]. First Paperback Printing ("1" present in the number row). Trade Paperback, 6" x 9", 209 pages + 1 page About the Author. CONDITION: This book is in Very Good condition with a crease on the lower, fore-edge corner of the back cover. There is also a small (1/4"), light discoloration near the bottom of the fore-edge. The book is tight and intact. There are NO MARKINGS by previous owner(s). Please examine all six photographs of this book for a better idea of its condition. In American literature, a traumatic scene of racial and sexual awakening - frequently involving photographs, mirrors, or acts of witnessing - often precipitates a character's "discovery" of racial identity. Similarly, in the annals of psychoanalysis, notions of self and sexual identity often arise from visual trauma such as the mirror stage and primal scene. Noting this parallel between specular births of racial and sexual subjectivity, Gwen Bergner uses a comparative analysis of psychoanalytic theory and American literature to develop a theory of racialization - the process through which individuals assume an identity as black or white. Examining the primal scenes of double consciousness in works by Frederick Douglass, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison, among others, alongside the formative visual traumas of psychoanalytic theory of Lacan and Freud, Taboo Subjects reveals how literature disrupts psychoanalysis's conventional models of race and gender identification, forcing a reconfiguration of many foundational psychoanalytic texts. And from psychoanalysis Bergner derives a critical vocabulary for theorizing racialization as it intersects with sex and gender, for both black and white Americans. Item No.: D0055 Check out my other items for more interesting and collectible books, magazines and posters.

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