Taboo Subjects: Race, Sex, and Psychoa..., Gwen Bergner

by Gwen S. Bergner

$60 · Offered by eBay

Can't find what you're looking for? Home page About us Feedback Payment Delivery Customer Service Contact us Shop by Price $10.34 $10.35 - $12.34 $12.35 - $14.34 $14.35 - $16.34 $16.35+ Shop pages Home page Payment Delivery Customer Service About the seller Need help? Send an eBay message Newsletter Add World of Books to your favourites and receive email newsletters about special promotions! General Interest Taboo Subjects: Race, Sex, and Psychoanalysis Product Details: Category: Books ISBN: 081664067X Title: Taboo Subjects: Race, Sex, and Psychoanalysis The Fast Free Shipping Author: Gwen Bergner Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Year Published: 2005 Number of Pages: 240 Book Binding: Hardback Prizes: N/A Book Condition: GOOD SKU: CIN081664067XG Item description 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 D

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Year: 2005
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 081664067X
• Condition: Good

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.