The good infection

Parallax

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 87-98

  Oliver, Kelly ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34347377721     PISSN: 13534645     EISSN: 1460700X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13534640500133997     Document Type: Review

References (33)

1. nd edn (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), p.428.
2. See Ron Suskind, 'Without a Doubt', New York Times Magazine (17 October 2004), p.47.
3. Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo [1913], in The Freud Reader, ed. by Peter Gay (New York: Norton, 1989).
4. Freud, Totem and Taboo, p.501.
5. For a powerful analysis of Lacan's reading of Freud's Totem and Taboo and an inspiring examination of its implications for thinking about the binary human/animal, see Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, 'Being Human: Bestiality, Anthropophogy, and the Law', Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious (2003). p.97- 114.
6. Seshadri Crooks argues that 'the totem memorializes the time before the law, before the moral prohibitions against incest and murder, before species difference', p.103.
7. She concludes that 'the concept of the animal, is constitutive of the human, and [of] his or her access to the moral law and the paternal function [...] ', p.112.
8. Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror, trans. Léon Roudiez (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982);
9. Pouvoirs de l'horreur (Paris: Seuil, 1980)
10. and Julia Kristeva, The Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt, trans. Jeanine Herman (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).
11. Sens et non-sense de la révolte (Paris: Fayard, 1996).
12. Kristeva, Sense and Non-Sense of Revolt, p.22.
13. Frantz Fanon, Black Skin White Masks [1952], trans. C. L. Markmann (New York: Grove, 1967).
14. Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, pp.10, 50 and 60.
15. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), p.5.
16. Spivak, Critique of Postcolonial Reason, pp.6 and 49.
17. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth [1961], trans. Constance Farrington (New York: Grove, 1968), pp.56 and 52.
18. For a sustained analysis of the dynamics of the colonization of psychic space, see my The Colonization of Psychic Space (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
19. Fanon, Wretched of the Earth, p.54.
20. Fanon, Black Skin White Masks, p.165.
21. Cf. Sigmund Freud, 'Obsessions and Phobias, Their Psychical Mechanism and Their Aetiology' [1895], in The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 24 vols, ed. by James Strachey (London: Hogarth and Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1962), III, pp.74-82.
22. J. Laplanche and J-B Pontalis, The Language of Psycho-Analysis, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith (New York: Norton, 1973), p.281.
23. For a detailed analysis of the pathology of the demand for recognition, see my Witnessing: Beyond Recognition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2001).
24. Sigmund Freud, 'The Neuro-Psychoses of Defense' [1894], in The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 24 vols, ed. by James Strachey (London: Hogarth and Institute of Psychoanalysis, 1962), III, pp.43-61.
25. Kristeva, Powers of Horror, p.2.
26. Juliet Flower MacCannell, The Hysteric's Guide to the Future Female Subject (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000).
27. Flower MacCannel, Hysteric's Guide, p.65.
28. Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, p.252
29. and Black Skin, White Masks, p.143.
30. Fanon, Black Skins, White Masks, p.52.
31. Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism [1959], trans. Haakon Chevalier (New York: Grove, 1965) p.24.
32. See my Noir Anxiety: Race, Sex, and Maternity in Film Noir (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), pp.203-209.
33. For a more developed account of alternative forms of idealization and sublimation, see my Colonization of Psychic Space.