The Multicultural Imagination: Race, Color, and the UnconsciousThe Multicultural Imagination is a challenging inquiry into the complex interrelationship between our ideas about race and color and the unconscious. Michael Vannoy Adams takes a fresh look at the contributions of psychoanalysis to a question which affects every individual who tries to establish an effective personal identity in the context of their received 'racial' identity. Adams argues that 'race' is just as important as sex or any other content of the unconcscious, drawing on clinical case materal from contemporary patients for whom 'race' or color is a vitally significant social and political concern that impacts on them personally. He does not assume that racism or 'colorism' will simply vanish if we psychoanalyse them, but shows how a non-defensive ego and a self-image that is receptive to other-images can move us towards a more productive discourse of cultural differences. Wide-ranging in its references and scope, this is a book that provokes the reader - analyst or not - to confront personally those unconscious attitudes which stand in the way of authentic multicultural relationships. |
Contents
Pluralism racism and colorism | 1 |
Whiteness and blackness nature and culture | 17 |
The cultural unconscious and collective differences | 37 |
Going black going primitive going instinctive | 51 |
Jung in Black Africa | 68 |
kinky straight bald | 85 |
Jung on race and the unconscious | 101 |
The color complex | 120 |
going other going different | 178 |
Case material race material | 192 |
Colorchange dreams and racial identity | 210 |
A colorchange from brown to white to black | 226 |
Old Man River | 240 |
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The Multicultural Imagination: "Race", Color, and the Unconscious Michael Vannoy Adams Limited preview - 2019 |
The Multicultural Imagination: Race, Color, and the Unconscious Michael Vannoy Adams Limited preview - 1996 |
Common terms and phrases
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