In twentieth-century African, African American, and Caribbean literatures, mixed-blood women are often misread as figures frozen in tragic postures. Such unrealistic portraitures replicate the traditional white-authored pathologizations of racial hybridity. Drawing on the theore…
The experience of God has been the subject of psychoanalytic discussion, beginning with Freud's focusing on its unconscious defensive aspects. Object relations theorists describe an unconscious relationship with an internalized representation of God, which can be a source of gro…
Entrenched between contradictory traditional and western values, francophone African Muslims have adopted opposing attitudes and customs. They take refuge in their secular practices that predate both Islam and the Coran, which they have misread, in order to justify polar interpr…
"Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love-to be kinder, more empathic, a better person, and so on. But trying to love without dealing with our ambivalence,…
Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love -to be kinder, more empathic, a better person, and so on. But trying to love without dealing with our ambivalence,…
"Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love-to be kinder, more empathic, a better person, and so on. But trying to love without dealing with our ambivalence,…
"Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love-to be kinder, more empathic, a better person, and so on. But trying to love without dealing with our ambivalence,…
Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love -to be kinder, more empathic, a better person, and so on. But trying to love without dealing with our ambivalence,…
Introduction : lead into gold -- Visibilia -- Excursus : ambivalence -- Chemical nuptials -- Excursus : mercury -- A chemical couple -- Rumplestiltskin -- The sandman -- Excursus : counterfeiting -- Reading capital I, alchemically -- Digital gold.