White Men Aren't

"This is an incredibly smart book, one that does an excellent job of joining its psychoanalytical with its historical and political arguments and offers surprising, provocative, and convincing conclusions."--Sally Robinson, Texas A & M University

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Believing is Seeing

1. Complex Oedipus: Reading Sophocles, Testing Freud

2. Missing Links

3. The Fair Sex: It’s Not What You Think

4. In Defense of the Phallus

5. White Men Aren’t
5. White Men Aren’t
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Afterword

Works Cited

Notes

Index

About the author

Thomas DiPiero is Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures and Associate Professor of both French and Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions: The Evolution of the French Novel, 1569–1791 and coeditor of Illicit Sex: Identity Politics in Early Modern Europe.

Summary

Psychoanalytic theory has traditionally taken sexual difference to be the fundamental organizing principle of human subjectivity. This book contests that assumption, arguing that other forms of difference - particularly race - are equally important to the formation of identity.

Product details

• Authors: Dipiero, Thomas Dipiero
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.2002
• EAN: 9780822329619
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2961-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 68 mm x 304 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 517 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sozialpsychologie, Ethnic Studies