Fanon via Lacan, or: decolonization by psychoanalytic means … ?

dc.contributor.authorHook, Derek
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-27T13:44:01Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractLacanian 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 are able to re-articulate many of Fanon's most crucial political insights. The paper adopts three routes of enquiry. Firstly, it investigates Fanon's earliest citations of Lacan, noting how Fanon utilizes Lacan's ideas of historically-situated forms of madness, (mis)recognition, paranoia and psychic causality. Secondly, it highlights a series of conceptual affinities that exist between the work of the two theorists including idea of sociogeny, the importance of symbolic (or social) structure, the notion of fantasy and of a social (or transindividual) unconscious. Thirdly, it provides an instructive example of how Fanon's theorizations of colonial oppression might be supplemented by means of Lacanian social theory especially in respect of how the colonized are positioned as "non-subjects" relative to the master-signifier of whiteness.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentPsychologyen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2021-02-27
dc.description.librarianhj2020en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rbsp20en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationDerek Hook (2020): Fanon via Lacan, or: Decolonization by Psychoanalytic Means … ?, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 51(4): 305-319, DOI: 10.1080/00071773.2020.1732575.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0007-1773 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2332-0486 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/00071773.2020.1732575
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/74755
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_ZA
dc.rights© 2020 The British Society for Phenomenology. This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 305-319, 2020, doi; 10.1080/00071773.2020.1732575. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rbsp20.en_ZA
dc.subjectLacanen_ZA
dc.subjectDecolonizationen_ZA
dc.subjectFanonen_ZA
dc.subjectPsychiatryen_ZA
dc.subjectPsychoanalysisen_ZA
dc.subjectWhitenessen_ZA
dc.titleFanon via Lacan, or: decolonization by psychoanalytic means … ?en_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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