Professor Todd McGowan (Professor, University of Vermont, USA)

Broschiertes Buch

The Racist Fantasy

Unconscious Roots of Hatred

Herausgeber: Rashkin, Esther; Neroni, Hilary; Rudnytsky, Peter L

Beschreibung

The Racist Fantasy explores the psychic basis for the racism that appears so conspicuously throughout modern history. Racism persists because it ties into an unconscious fantasy structure for those invested in it. The fundamental racist fantasy positions the racial other as a figure who blocks the enjoyment of the racist. This fantasy takes root under capitalism as a way of explaining the failures and disappointments that result from the relationship to the commodity. To struggle against racism, one must work to dislodge the fantasy structure and the capitalist relations that require it. This is the project of the book.

Autor

Todd McGowan is Professor of English at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the author of 15 books, including Universality and Identity Politics (2020), Emancipation After Hegel (2019), and Capitalism and Desire (2016). He is the series editor of Film Theory in Practice (Bloomsbury), and co-series editor (with Slavoj Zizek and Adrian Johnston) of Diaeresis (Northwestern University Press). He is also the host of the podcast Why Theory (with Ryan Engley).

Produktdetails

• Psychoanalytic Horizons
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9781501392801
• ISBN-10: 1501392808
• Artikelnr.: 63435009