The Gauche Intruder: Freud, Lacan and the White Australian Fantasy

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Melbourne University Press, 2000 - Political Science - 239 pages
Academic examination of the formation of an Australian moral code at the heart of white Australian identity. Demonstrates the link between morality and aggression in the history of white Australia, showing that aggression has historically manifested itself at the very moment when white Australia has set out to do good. Links the moral aggression of white Australia with the White Australia policy, the Stolen Generations and the rise of the One Nation party. Includes notes, bibliography and index. Author is a Research Fellow in the School of Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University.

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Contents

Good Neighbours no
5
The Colonial Good
28
The Law Necessary and Obscene
57
Copyright

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About the author (2000)

Jennifer Rutherford is a research fellow in the school of critical and cultural studies at Macquarie University. Her most recent research project is a documentary film on the One Nation movement.

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