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(Post)apartheid Conditions

Psychoanalysis and Social Formation

  • Derek Hook
Book

Part of the Studies in the Psychosocial book series (STIP)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: (Post)apartheid Psychosociality
    Derek Hook
    Pages 1-17
  3. The Monumental Uncanny
    Derek Hook
    Pages 18-46
  4. Apartheid’s Corps Morcelé
    Derek Hook
    Pages 47-73
  5. Retrieving Biko
    Derek Hook
    Pages 74-101
  6. ‘Impossibility’ and the Retrieval of Apartheid History
    Derek Hook
    Pages 102-124
  7. Apartheid’s Lost Attachments
    Derek Hook
    Pages 125-146
  8. Mimed Melancholia
    Derek Hook
    Pages 147-169
  9. Screened History: Nostalgia as Defensive Formation
    Derek Hook
    Pages 170-193
  10. Conclusion: Time Signatures
    Derek Hook
    Pages 194-205
  11. Back Matter
    Pages 206-242
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About this book

Introduction

(Post)apartheid Conditions: Psychoanalysis and Social Formation advances a series of psychoanalytic perspectives on contemporary South Africa, exploring key psychosocial topics such as space-identity, social fantasy, the body, whiteness, memory and nostalgia.

Keywords

Apartheid post-apartheid psychosocial racism South-Africa Steve Biko Judith Butler Jacques Lacan psychoanalysis social formation identity memory

Authors and affiliations

  • Derek Hook
    • 1
    • 2
  1. 1.Birkbeck CollegeUniversity of LondonUK
  2. 2.University of the WitwatersrandJohannesburgSouth Africa

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