Lacan and Race

Sheldon George is professor and chair of English at Simmons University, USA. He is the author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity. Derek Hook is an associate professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, USA, and an extraordinary professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is the author of Six Moments in Lacan.

Introduction: theorizing race, racism, and racial identification; PART I: Reading racism through Lacan; 1 The bedlam of the lynch mob: racism and enjoying through the other; 2 Pilfered pleasure: on racism as "the theft of enjoyment"; 3 Confederate signifiers in Vermont: fetish objects and racist enjoyment; 4 The function and field of speech and language in white nationalist manifestoes; 5 Oedipal Empire: psychoanalysis, Indigenous Peoples, and the Oedipus Complex in colonial context; PART II: Racial identification and the subversion of race; 6 In medium race: traversing the fantasy of post-race discourse; 7 The object of apartheid desire: A Lacanian approach to racism and ideology; 8 Raced group pathologies and cultural sublimation; PART III: Race and the clinic; 9 Race, perversion, and jouissance in Portrait of Jason; 10 The lost souls of the barrio: Lacanian psychoanalysis in the ghetto; 11 Dereliction: Afropessimism, Anti-Blackness, and Lacanian psychoanalysis; 12 Japanese inter-signifier subjects: jouissance in the locus of the character; PART IV: Theorizing the racialized Lacanian subject; 13 The Lacanian subject of race: sexuation, the drive, and racial subjectivity: 14 Skin-things, fleshy matters, and phantasies of race: Lacan’s myth of the lamella; 15 Fanon’s "zone of nonbeing": Blackness and the politics of the real; Afterword: there is only one race…