Frantz Fanon

David Macey

Vintage

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The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory

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In the most comprehensive study of Jacques Lacan yet to be published in English, David Macey challenges many of the assumptions that have come to surround Lacan’s work. He shows that key elements of Lacanian thought relate not to structuralism, as is often claimed, but to surrealism, Bataille and the early French phenomenologists. The famous “return to Freud” is shown to mask Lacan’s adherence to a psychiatric tradition and to trends within French psychoanalysis which were opposed by Freud himself.A detailed and challenging reading of work by Lacan and his associates on femininity reveals its reliance upon a virulently sexist discourse and upon an iconography derived from surrealism. The view that Lacanian psychoanalysis has a positive contribution to make to feminism and to theories of gender and sexual difference is contested. As well as providing a new and provocative reading of Lacan’s work, Lacan in Contexts is an important contribution to psychoanalytic history and to the history of French intellectual life.

Lacan in contexts

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Verso Books

Granta Books

Frantz Fanon was one of the great figures of mid-century revolt in the Third World. Born in Martinique, Fanon trained as a psychiatrist in France prior to taking a post in colonial Algeria. Here he met with the Front de Liberation National which was fighting a bitter war of independence. He subsequently worked with them as a propagandist and ambassador. Although he died from leukaemia at the age of 36, he managed to produce a number of memorable writings on race, racism, psychiatry and anti-colonialism. This biography aims to go beyond the myths surrounding the revolutionary hero to reveal Fanon as a complex figure, above and beyond the theorist of 1960s anti-colonial violence.

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