Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory

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Introduction: theorizing race, racism, and racial identification
	Reading racism through Lacan
	Racial identification and the subversion of race
	Race and the clinic
	Theorizing the racialized Lacanian subject
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Part I: Reading racism through Lacan
1. The bedlam of the lynch mob: racism and enjoying through the other
	Where is the other?
	The structure of the fantasy
	The otherness of our own enjoyment
	Notes
	References
2. Pilfered pleasure: on racism as "the theft of enjoyment"
	Introduction
	The "theft of enjoyment" thesis
	Jouissance: unserviceable tool of political analysis?
	Critique 1: the notion of enjoyment as psychologically reductionist
	Critique 2: enjoyment as an undifferentiated, overly-inclusive concept
	Critique 3: a conflation of different modes...?
	Libidinal treasures...
	...and the excessive feature(s) of the other
	Critique 4: a lack of adequate conceptual contextualization
	Conclusion
	References
3. Confederate signifiers in Vermont: fetish objects and racist enjoyment
	The evolution of a racist signifier
	The importance of lack
	South Burlington Rebels
	Dislodging the racist fetish object
	Winning the local battle
	Notes
	References
4. The function and field of speech and language in white nationalist manifestoes
	Introduction
	The manifesto
	The vigilante
	The law
	Crisis
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
5. Oedipal Empire: psychoanalysis, Indigenous Peoples, and the Oedipus Complex in colonial context
	Introduction: Oedipalized wards
	Freud: the imperishability of "the primitive mind"
	Fanon: colonization is not a metaphor
	Lacan: the settler-colonial return of the repressed
	Mbembe: the settler-state as phallocracy
	Conclusion: Oedipus as "colonization pursued by other means"
	Acknowledgment
	Notes
	References
Part II: Racial identification and the subversion of race
6. In medium race: traversing the fantasy of post-race discourse
	Introduction
	In medium race: the trap of "seeing through"
	Against and post race
	Disavowal of race
	"Agency beyond the Symbolic:" cause and negativity
	"Agency beyond the Symbolic:" race as objet a and medium of jouissance
	Traversing the fantasy of race: subjectification over distance
	Notes
	References
7. The object of apartheid desire: a Lacanian approach to racism and ideology
	The ultimate racism in the world
	I. Racism as desire
		Coetzee's dilemmas: reading "the mind of apartheid"
	II. Fantasmatic transactions: exchanges of desire between subject and Other
		Phantom agency
		Lacan as theorist of apartheid ideology
		Alienation in the Symbolic Other
		Separation: an overlapping of lacks
		The sublime object (a) of apartheid ideology
		Is the big Other racist?
		The rewards of fantasy
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
8. Raced group pathologies and cultural sublimation
	The paradoxes and pathologies of identification
	The unary trait and the raced fantasm
	Desire and Atè in Nella Larsen's Quicksand
	Toward a new kind of group
	Notes
	References
Part III: Race and the clinic
9. Race, perversion, and jouissance in Portrait of Jason
	Perversion: a Lacanian formulation
		Portrait of Jason
	Who is Jason Holliday?
	Is identity a hustle?
	The function of the pervert
	Racism and psychoanalysis: the "hang-up"
	The law
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
10. The lost souls of the barrio: Lacanian psychoanalysis in the Ghetto
	Soul searching
	Barrio's souls
	Conclusion: lay curers of souls
	Notes
	References
11. Dereliction: Afropessimism, anti-blackness, and Lacanian psychoanalysis
	Introduction
	Section 1: epistemology and ontology
	Section 2: antiblackness: the other and the superego
	Section 3: the Lacanian Real as an approach to an afropessimist reading of antiblackness
	Section 4: clinical reflections
	Section 5: art and sublimation, or an insistence on living in the "shadow of social death"
	Notes
	References
12. Japanese inter-signifier subjects: jouissance in the locus of the character
	Introduction
	I The Japanese speaking subject—between on-yomi and kun-yomi
	II Between the mountains and the sea—the importance of the littoral in the Japanese imagination
	III Kanji and Buddhism producing subjects of speech between sea and mountain
	IV A littoral transference and the inter-signifier identity in the locus of the character
	V Conclusion
	Acknowledgment
	Notes
	References
Part IV: Theorizing the racialized Lacanian subject
13. The Lacanian subject of race: sexuation, the drive, and racial subjectivity
	The two expressive modes of Lacanian subjectivity and the subject's two lacks
	∀x Φx: The object a, identification and the racialized body
	∃xΦx¯¯¯¯¯: Race and the other jouissance that shouldn't be
	The unconscious insistence of race: the God face and hainamoration
	∃x¯¯¯¯¯Φx¯¯¯¯¯: Racism and ahistorical, unSymbolized jouissance
	∀x¯¯¯¯ Φx: Trauma, a jouissance that is not phallic jouissance
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
14. Skin-things, fleshy matters, and phantasies of race: Lacan's myth of the lamella
	The erogeneous body of the drive
	The epidermalized body as signifier and the phantasy of incorporeality
	The fleshy body: reattaching the skin-thing
	Conclusion: phantasms of race
	Notes
	References
15. Fanon's "zone of nonbeing": Blackness and the politics of the Real
	The zone of nonbeing as radical negativity
	From nonbeing to Blackness
	Blackness as the Real
	Blackness and the question of violence
	The New Man: a cut instead of a conclusion
	Notes
	References
Afterword: there is only one race...
	Notes
	References
Index