Lacan and Race Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory - ed. Sheldon George and Derek Hook

Scholars Sheldon George and Derek Hook were in discussion at our event.  You can access the recording here. 

This edited volume draws upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to examine the conscious and unconscious forces underlying race as a social formation, conceptualizing race, racial identity, and racism in ways that go beyond traditional modes of psychoanalytic thought.

Featuring contributions by Lacanian scholars from diverse geographical and disciplinary contexts, chapters span a wide breadth of topics, including white nationalism and contemporary debates over confederate monuments; emergent theories of race rooted in Afropessimism and postcolonialism; analyses of racism in apartheid and American slavery; clinical reflections on Latinx and other racialized patients; and applications of Lacan’s concepts of the lamella, drive and sexuation to processes of racialization.

The collection both reorients readers’ understandings of race through its deployment of Lacanian theory and redefines the Lacanian subject through its theorizing of subjectivity in relation to race, racism and racial identification.

Publisher: Routledge

Published: July 2021

Format: Paperback

Pages: 324

Illustrations: 10 B/W

Dimensions: 15.6 x 1.73 x 23.4 cm