Fanon’s Lacan and the Traumatogenic Child: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Dynamics of Colonialism and Racism

Theory, Culture and Society

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 77-101

  Burman, Erica ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

alienation; colonization; gender; misrecognition; psychoanalysis; psychosocial; subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973341525     PISSN: 02632764     EISSN: 14603616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0263276415598627     Document Type: Article

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