"L'ouvrage procède à une lecture croisée des théories sociales de Marx, Freud et Marcuse, qui constitue le point focal de l'analyse. Cette interprétation nouvelle démontre que la théorie critique de Marcuse repose sur un double renversement épistémologique jusqu'ici inaperçu : d…
"L'ouvrage procède à une lecture croisée des théories sociales de Marx, Freud et Marcuse, qui constitue le point focal de l'analyse. Cette interprétation nouvelle démontre que la théorie critique de Marcuse repose sur un double renversement épistémologique jusqu'ici inaperçu : d…
Race in Psychoanalysis analyzes the often-unrecognized racism in psychoanalysis by examining how the colonialist discourse of late nineteenth-century anthropology made its way into Freud’s foundational texts, where it has remained and continues to exert a hidden influence. Recen…
This book explores how Jacques Lacan has influenced Black Studies from the 1950s to the present day, and in turn how a Black Studies framework challenges the topographies of Lacanianism in its understanding of race. David Marriott examines how a contemporary Black Studies perspe…
""Lacan Noir is an intellectual masterpiece. David Marriott successfully exceeds psychoanalytic application by offering, instead, a rigorous black critique of Lacanian psychoanalysis--revealing the concealed '(anti)black unconscious' determining psychoanalytic limits, rupturing …
The 20th century was marked by two profoundly different insights into the nature of humanity: one views each person as the product of unconscious desires, while the other sees the individual as the product of language and culture. While many still believe these two insights to b…
The different psychopathologic syndromes show in an exaggerated and caricatural manner the basic structures of human existence. These structures not only characterize psychopathology, but they also determine the highest forms of culture. This is the credo of Freud's anthropology…