Race, Rage, and Resistance: Philosophy, Psychology, and the Perils of Individualism [Paperback]

This timely collection asks the reader to consider how societys modern notion of humans as rational, isolated individuals has contributed to psychological and social problems and oppressive power structures.

Experts from a range of disciplines offer a complex understanding of how humans are shaped by history, tradition, and institutions. Drawing upon the work of Lacan, Fanon, and Foucault, this text examines cultural memory, modern ideas of race and gender, the roles of symbolism and mythology, and neoliberalisms impact on psychology. Through clinical vignettes and suggested applications, it demonstrates significant alternatives to the isolated individualism of Western philosophy and psychology.

This interdisciplinary volume is essential reading for clinicians and anyone looking to augment their understanding of how human beings are shaped by the societies they inhabit.

Preface  Notes on Contributors  Introduction: Intergenerational Strains  Chapter 1. Open Wounds: Discerning, Owning, and Narrating Deep History  Chapter 2. Frantz Fanon and Psychopathology: The Progressive Infrastructure of Black Skin, White Masks  Chapter 3. American Cultural Symbolism of Rage and Resistance in Collective Trauma: Racially-Influenced Political Myths, Counter-Myths, Projective Identification, and the Evocation of Transcendent Humanity  Chapter 4. Neoliberalism and the Ethics of Psychology  Chapter 5. Black Rage and White Listening: On the Psychologization of Racial Emotionality  Chapter 6. Jouissance and Discontent: A Meeting of Psychoanalysis, lÓ*