Race, Rage, and Resistance: Philosophy, Psychology, and the Perils of Individualism

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Intergenerational Strains
	The lost urgency of generationality
	Myth, tradition, and gender
	The task before us
	Notes
1. Open Wounds: Discerning, Owning, and Narrating Deep History
	Erasure
	Excursus: the narrative unconscious and the psycho-politics of erasure
	Discerning
	Owning
	Narrating
	Notes
	References
2. Frantz Fanon and Psychopathology: The Progressive Infrastructure of Black Skin, White Masks
	Notes
	References
3. American Cultural Symbolism of Rage and Resistance in Collective Trauma: Racially-Influenced Political Myths, Counter-Myths, Projective Identification, and the Evocation of Transcendent Humanity
	Projection and the reductive as a hindrance to ethical engagement with the other
	Environmental stewardship and nature as an other: evocation of a
call to ethics and transcendent culture in the midst of microcosms
in America and within the self
	Prosocial resistance or pacifism? Two responses to our
responsibility to the other
	Polarities and boundaries within the self as co-creators of alterity
	Sources and effects of myths and counter-myths: The need for the numinous in the development towards cultural transcendence
	Pathological meta-projections
	Non-fundamentalist religion, apophatic mystery and myth in the
service of prosocial transformation of language and culture during
movement from the reductive
	Defensive counter-myths and religious pathology
	Narrative polarities as energy
	Notes
	References
4. Neoliberalism and the Ethics of Psychology
	Notes
	References
5. Black Rage and White Listening: On the Psychologization of Racial Emotionality
	Situating Black rage and white listening
	Racial feeling as abnormality
	The emotionalization of race
	Listening and neoliberal containment
	Inaccessible rage as catharsis
	Conclusion: toward a recovery of racial emotion
	Notes
6. Jouissance and Discontent: A Meeting of Psychoanalysis, Race, and American Slavery
	Jouissance and the modern institution of slavery
	Constructing a soul and a racial self
	Conclusion: masking and unveiling the real
	Notes
	References
7. The Nasty Woman: Destruction and the Path to Mutual Recognition
	An overview of dissociation, complementarity, Oedipal problems, and gender
	Active dis-association from patriarchy
	Danger of cutting off and staying separated
	Examples from mythology and clinical practice
	Relational maturity: the nasty woman’s child
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
8. Another Voice from Radical Ethics: Denmark’s Knud Løgstrup
	Løgstrup and Levinas.
	Notes
	References
9. Identity-as-disclosive-space: Dasein, Discourse and Distortion
	Introduction
	Being-in-language
	Being-in-distortion
	Being-in-identity
	Being-disclosive-space
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
10. Finding the Other in the Self
	Distinguishing self from other
	Othering and fear
	Othering and rage
	Othering and envy
	Othering and shame
	Myths of psychological and moral progress
	Some implications
	Respect
	Ongoing self-scrutiny and acknowledgment of limitation
	Notes
	References
11. After the World Collapsed: Two Culturally Embedded Forms of Service to Others Following Wide-Scale Societal Traumas
	Forms of service to others following wide-scale societal traumas
	The ethical philosophy of Levinas
	Ethical responsibility of selflessness
	Clinical vignettes
	Conclusion: altruism and remembering
	Notes
	References
Index