Hating in the first person plural : psychoanalytic essays on racism, homophobia, misogyny, and terror / edited by Donald Moss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moss, Donald, 1949-

Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hate.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 336 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Other Press, [2003]

Summary:

The Essays In This Collection Cast Light On The Social, Political, And Psychodynamics Of Structured Forms Of Hatred. Donald Moss Argues That Such Forms Of Hatred Depend, First Of All, Upon Our Capacity To Identify And Label Our Targets. We Need To Affirm That We Are Not Like Them. We Ground These Distinctions In Nature. With The Other Cast As Our Natural Enemy, We Cast Hatred As Our Natural Feeling. This Book Explores Some Of The Ways That Both Laypeople And Psychoanalysts Covertly Participate In The Kinds Of Hatreds They Overtly Renounce. Open-Mindedness May Offer Insufficient Protection Against Such Participation. Only When We Can Identify With What We Find Unbearable In The Other Can We Begin To Understand The Other As A Partner In Dialogue. Moss Illustrates His Thinking With A Revelatory Anecdote From His Own Youth -- Repeatedly Watching WWII Footage In Movie Theater Newsreels So As To Contend With A Volatile, And Unstable, Mix Of Identifications With Both The Victims And The Killers. Moss Has Assembled A Handsome Range Of Thought Here. The Authors Included In This Collection Cover Wide Cultural Territory, From Victor Wolfenstein'S Brilliant Piece On Ellison'S Invisible Man To Ken Corbett's Groundbreaking Essay Deconstructing The Speech Patterns Of One Of His Patients, "Faggot = Loser."

Contents:

Introduction: On Hating in the First Person Plural: Thinking Psychoanalytically about Racism, Homophobia, and Misogyny / Donald Moss xvii

I On Racism

1. Repairing History: Reworking Transgenerational Trauma / Maurice Apprey 3

2. Historical and Unconscious Trauma: Racism and Psychoanalysis / Alan Bass 29

3. "The Derived Life of Fiction": Race, Childhood, and Culture / David Marriott 45

4. Race, Rage, and Oedipus in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man / E. Victor Wolfenstein 69

II On Homophobia

5. Faggot = Loser / Ken Corbett 117

6. Homophobias: A Diagnostic and Political Manual / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl 145

7. Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Gay-Friendly Psychoanalysis / Kenneth Lewes 161

8. Internalized Homophobia in Men: Wanting in the First Person Singular, Hating in the First Person Plural / Donald Moss 197

III On Misogyny

9. As Useless As Tits on a Bull?: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Misogyny / Lynne Zeavin 227

10. Misogyny: Hatred at Close Range / Adrienne Harris 249

IV On Terrorism

11. Evil as Love and as Liberation: The Mind of a Suicidal Religious Terrorist / Ruth Stein 281

12. The Appearance of the Other in the Attacks of September 11 / David Lichtenstein 311

13. Does It Matter What the Terrorists Meant? / Donald Moss 323.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

ISBN:

1590510143

OCLC:

50638840