Browsing Psychology by Author "Hook, Derek"

Browsing Psychology by Author "Hook, Derek"

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  • Affective archives as political impasse 
    Palacios, Margarita; Hook, Derek (Springer, 2020-12)
    This special issue presents work of the multidisciplinary and international Affective Archives Research Group that was established in 2016. The aim of the group was to reflect upon the multiple intersections between the ...
  • Das Ding as object of melancholia 
    Hook, Derek (Routledge, 2018)
    While Freud’s account of melancholia stresses the role of a lost object, a Lacanian approach draws attention to the role of an intruding and excessive “real” object and the inability of the psychotic subject to adequately ...
  • Death-bound subjectivity : Fanon’s zone of nonbeing and the Lacanian death drive 
    Hook, Derek (Springer, 2020-12)
    Is there a distinctive form of political agency that emerges from the conditions of ‘death-bound subjectivity’? Fanon’s idea of the zone of nonbeing suggests that this is indeed the case. Yet there is an omission in the ...
  • The desire of apartheid 
    Hook, Derek (Routledge, 2023)
    This paper has two objectives. It aims, firstly, to provide an overview of the explanatory dilemmas that J.M. Coetzee highlights in his acclaimed essay “The mind of apartheid” in respect of existing theories of apartheid ...
  • Fanon via Lacan, or: decolonization by psychoanalytic means … ? 
    Hook, Derek (Routledge, 2020)
    Lacanian psychoanalysis is often considered antithetical to Frantz Fanon's decolonizing political project. This paper argues, by contrast, that by exploring hitherto under-explored aspects of the Fanon-Lacan relation we ...
  • Fanon/Lacan : sites of intersection 
    Hook, Derek (Edinburgh University Press, 2020-12)
    Three questions motivate this paper's investigation of various intersections between the work of Frantz Fanon and Jacques Lacan. First, what hitherto under-explored references to Lacan's work are to be found in Fanon's ...
  • Love, artificiality and mass identification 
    Hook, Derek (Routledge, 2014-03)
    How are we to understand the phenomenon of mass identification, epitomised in recent exhibitions of national feeling such as that of South Africa’s 2010 Football World Cup celebrations? Rather than focusing on the ...
  • Melancholic psychosis—a Lacanian approach 
    Hook, Derek (Routledge, 2018)
    Drawing on the conceptual resources provided by Lacanian accounts of melancholia and the death drive, and by means of reference to a clinical case summary and the film Into the Wild, this paper hopes to open up new ways ...
  • Of symbolic mortification and undead life : Slavoj Žižek on the death drive 
    Hook, Derek (Edinburgh University Press, 2016-07)
    The work of Slavoj Žižek contains arguably the most conceptually ambitious re-articulation of the Lacanian notion of the death drive. This paper offers an expository thread joining many of the fragmentary depictions of the ...
  • On the role of speech In psychoanalysis : revisiting Lacan's function and field 
    Hook, Derek (Sage, 2023-10)
    A number of underutilized concepts in Lacan’s “Function and Field of Language and Speech in Psychoanalysis” are examined with an eye to rendering them accessible and practicable to analysts from outside the Lacanian ...
  • Petrified life 
    Hook, Derek (Routledge, 2015-10-12)
    How might we read temporality, that is, the psychical and social experience of time, as an index of the prevailing political and intersubjective impasses of the apartheid and post-apartheid eras? This paper explores three ...
  • Racism and jouissance : evaluating the “racism as (the theft of) enjoyment” hypothesis 
    Hook, Derek (Springer, 2018-09)
    This paper introduces and evaluates the Lacanian idea that racism can be conceptualized both as a mode of enjoyment (jouissance) and as a reaction to the perceived “theft of enjoyment.” Despite the distinct analytical ...
  • Refuting melancholia: postures of melancholic identification in the apartheid archive 
    Hook, Derek (Rozenberg Publishers, 2014)
    This paper, the second of two focussed on the libidinal attachments of white children to black domestic workers in narratives contributed to the Apartheid Archive Project (AAP), considers the applicability of the concept ...
  • Revisiting the master-signifier, or, Mandela and repression 
    Hook, Derek; Vanheule, Stijn (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2016-01-19)
    The concept of the master-signifier has been subject to a variety of applications in Lacanian forms of political discourse theory and ideology critique. While there is much to be commended in literature of this sort, it ...
  • What is "enjoyment as a political factor"? 
    Hook, Derek (Wiley, 2017-08)
    The notion of “enjoyment as a political factor” is a key motif in Lacanian psychoanalytic social theory. This article explores the notion of enjoyment/jouissance—a type of “negative pleasure” or intense libidinal arousal—as ...