Desire, the social unconscious, and shame
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The problematic relationship between sexuality and gender in theorizing desire is explained through an example of male same-sex desire. Intersection between social norms and the personal aspects of life have important implications for shame with regard to same-sex desire.
Publication Name: Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 1088-0763
Year: 2007
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Accentuate the negative: Two contributions to a non-normative Oedipal theory
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The Oedipus complex is discussed in terms of Sigmund Freud's analysis of its positive and negative sides and also the Lacanian reading of the complex. Negative Oedipus complex or a non-normative Oedipal theory is observed in the memoirs of people analyzed by Freud.
Publication Name: Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 1088-0763
Year: 2007
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Reparation and reparations: towards a social psychoanalysis
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Melanie Klein's essay Love, Guilt and Reparation and her notion of reparation among slaves which shows a primary aggressive guilt structure prevalent in American and African American racism is discussed.
Publication Name: Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 1088-0763
Year: 2007
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