Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Social Theory of Oppression

by Kelly Oliver

Book Overview

Reveals the psychic and social costs of racial and sexual oppression

We are, Julia Kristeva writes, strangers to ourselves; and indeed much of contemporary theory, whether psychoanalytic, historical, social, or critical, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816644748
• ISBN13: 9780816644742
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"