The Gauche Intruder: Freud, Lacan and the White Australian FantasyAcademic 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. |
Contents
Good Neighbours no | 5 |
The Colonial Good | 28 |
The Law Necessary and Obscene | 57 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
A. D. Hope Aboriginal aggression articulation attempt Brother Jack bush Canberra castration Chariot child Clara Morison colonial constituted courtly love critical David death defined demand desire discourse domain ego-ideal encounter enjoyment Ethics of Psychoanalysis European example fantasy feminine feminist fictional Fortunes of Richard Freud Fyshwick gaze guilt Henry Handel Richardson ideal idealisation identification identificatory identity imagined Jennifer Johnno jouissance Lacan argues lack language lawless literary logic Mahony's Mary masculinity metaphor metonymic metonymic chain moral mother myth narrative narrator nation neighbour neighbourliness never novel object Patrick White phallus play pleasure principle rapport reader realise reality recognise refusal relation representation represented Richard Mahony Riders Robbery Under Arms Scully sexual signifier Slavoj Žižek social space speak story structure sublimation super-ego sustain symbolic Thing Thursa tradition tralian transgression void White Australia Policy white Australian culture White's style Winton's woman Žižek
References to this book
Fabulating Beauty: Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey Andreas Gaile No preview available - 2005 |