FREDERICK DOUGLASS, A PSYCHOBIOGRAPHY : rethinking subjectivity in the western experiment of... democracy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Danjuma G.

Series:

Black religion, womanist thought, social justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.

Douglass, Frederick.

Enslaved persons--United States--Biography.

Enslaved persons.

Antislavery movements.

History.

United States.

Abolitionists--United States--Biography.

Abolitionists.

African American abolitionists--Biography.

African American abolitionists.

Antislavery movements--United States--History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vii, 192 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PU, 2018.

Summary:

In the extreme context of the American slavocracy, how do we account for the robust subjectivity and agency of Frederick Douglass? In an environment of extremity, where most contemporary psychological theory suggests the human spirit would be vanquished, how did Frederick Douglass emerge to become one of the most prolific thinkers of the 19th century? To address this question, this book engages in a psychoanalytic examination of all four of Frederick Douglass's autobiographies. Danjuma G. Gibson examines when, how, and why Douglass tells his story in the manner he does, how his story shifts and takes shape with each successive autobiography, and the resulting psychodynamic, pastoral, and practical theological implications--back cover.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. The Intersubjective Matrix of the Slavocracy: Experiencing the World of Frederick Douglass

3. Reimagining Black Subjectivity: A Psychoanalysis of Frederick Douglass

4. A New Birth: Agency Over One's Self and Body and Sacred Spaces of Play

5. The Force of Being, Life Stories, and Counter-Narrative: A Brief Comment on Cultural Trauma and Resiliency

6. A Constructive Theology of Deliverance: Redeeming the Internal Force of Being

7. Remembering, Lament, and Public Ritual: Redeeming the Democratic Experiment

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3319752286

9783319752280

OCLC:

1037292565