(Post)apartheid Conditions

(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.

I believe that this book is central reading for all South Africans that are trying to navigate an ethical path through social formations that are at times both enthralling and appalling to our sensitivities. Hook offers a set of lenses and a sophisticated understanding of psychoanalytic concepts to navigate our way leading to an altogether unsettling viewpoint that nevertheless holds the promise of working through rather than repetition. (Lisa Saville Young, PINS Psychology in Society, Vol. 51, 2016)

'(Post)apartheid Conditions remains an important intervention for anybody seriously interested in bringing psychoanalysis to bear not only on South Africa but on the deeper dynamics of social conflict, wherever it is found.' - Radical Philosophy

Autorentext
Derek Hook is a Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is the author of Foucault, Psychology and the Analytics of Power and A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial . He is a research fellow of the Independent Social Research Foundation and a lead researcher in the Apartheid Archive Project.

Inhalt
Introduction 1. The Monumental Uncanny 2. Apartheid's Corps Morcelé 3. Retrieving Biko 4. 'Impossibility' and the Retrieval of Apartheid History 5. Apartheid's Lost Attachments 6. Mimed Melancholia 7. Screened History Conclusion References