Bert Olivier
Biographic Data
| ID | 160231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bert Olivier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bert |
| FAMILY NAME | Olivier |
| SIGNATURE | OLIVIER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nelson Mandela University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3138-1948 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Van Orwell se 1984 tot die aktualisering daarvan in 2020-2023
From Orwellʼs 1984 to its actualisation in 2020-2023When surveying the recent and arguably increasing signs of attempts to control citizens globally in various ways, one is reminded of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four (or 1984), fi rst published in 1949.It strikes one as being paradigmatic of totalitarian domination in its literary representation of social control through diverse forms of technical and personal surveillance, keeping in mind t…
A Neglected (But Challenging) Archaeological Perspective
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ecological Responsibility
This article addresses the following question: what light might Mary Shelley's celebrated 1818 novel, Frankenstein, cast on the pressing ecological crisis faced by humanity in the present era? After providing a brief outline of the narrative plot, the focus shifts to those aspects of the novel that are germane to the ecological issue, namely the conception of science and technology that underpins Victor Frankenstein's narrative (and to a lesser e…
The Possibility of a “Minor Discourse” that Deterritorialises Neoliberalism Politically
In their work on Kafka, Deleuze and Guattari elaborated on the meaning of and criteria for a “minor literature,” that represents a people instead of a genre, has a directly political and collective function, and “deterritorialises” existing literatures. In this article the question is posed, whether their insights may be transposed to the broader field of language, specifically in the sense of discourse, to help one under-stand the possibility of…
Repetition or Retrieval and Transformation? Derek Hook's (Post)Apartheid Conditions - Psychoanalysis and Social Formation
In (Post)Apartheid Conditions (2013) – the title of which turns out to be richly ambiguous – psychoanalytical theorist Derek Hook, of Birkbeck College, University of London, addresses what might be called the temporal kernel of the question concerning psycho-social change. Not surprisingly, this is predicated on the enduring possibility of the pathological repetition of past social and political formations that have given rise to endemic sufferin…
Signs of Radical Democracy? Deleuze, Badiou, Rancière and Tahrir Square, 2011
How should one make theoretical sense of what has been called 'the miracle of Tahrir Square' – the fact that the Egyptian people successfully ousted a dictator in a peaceful manner, where militant groups had failed to do so by force? In this article it is argued that Deleuze/Guattari's notion of the subject in terms of desiring-machines, flows, schizophrenic production and the 'body-without-organs', enables one to theorise human subjectivity as b…
Literature After Ranciére: Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans and Gibson's Neuromancer
In this article the implications of Jacques Ranciére's far-reaching notions of “the distribution of the sensible”, “dissensus” and the “three regimes of art” (particularly for literature) are explored. Kazuo Ishiguro's roman noir entitled When We Were Orphans and William Gibson's dark science fiction novel Neuromancer are examined to demonstrate the novelty of Ranciére's thought, in terms of which the cherished categories of literary orthodoxy ar…
The Pleasure of Food, and the Spiritual: Eat, Pray, Love and Babette's Feast
This article explores the significance of the enjoyment of food in relation to spirituality, as (re)presented in two texts -Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love (2007) and the cinematic version of Karen Blixen's novel Babette's Feast (1987). It is argued that the pleasure derived from food occupies a crucial position in both texts, firstly in its own “hedonistic” right, but secondly also as far asit functions allegorically (Babette's Feast), or te…
Foucault and Individual Autonomy
What does it mean, to be ‘autonomous’, and more specifically, is it still possible to discern a modicum of ‘autonomy’ on the part of people in contemporary ‘carceral’ society to a significant degree — that is, a degree not limited to a handful of individuals whose autonomy one may discern in their ‘critical’ actions vis-à-vis mainstream discourses and behaviour? Is there indeed evidence, as implied by the question above, that the majority of peop…
That Strange Thing Called ‘Identifying’
Is the act of looking unavoidably accompanied by an act of identification (identifying), firstly in the sense of identifying a subject, and secondly of identifying objects as enduring? Identification of objects is here understood as the (unconscious) attribution of enduring identity or substantial sameness to objects in the human world, and of subjects as the experience or awareness of a relatively enduring identity or selfhood on the part of a h…
Philosophy and psychoanalytic theory: Collected Essays
Trauma and Literature: Derrida, 9/11 and Hart's The Reconstructionist
Is “trauma” a viable category in literary theory? That is, could “trauma” be articulated in such a way that, in addition to its acknowledged diagnostic and therapeutic function in psychology and psychoanalysis, it may be shown to have a distinct hermeneutic function where literary fiction is concerned – regarding the generation of the narrative thread, for example? This article investigates these questions in the light of the meaning of “trauma”,…
Negotiating the ‘Paranoiac Structure’ of Human Knowledge: Fowles's The Magus and Lacan
In this article, a reading is offered of John Fowles's novel, The Magus, in an attempt to show that the conception of human ‘knowledge’ put forward in the narrative is an instantiation and development of Lacan's claim that human knowledge is ‘paranoiac’ or delusional. Far from amounting to the claim that humans can and should do without it, though, Fowles, like Lacan, demonstrates in the unfolding story of his main character and narrator, Nichola…
Nietzsche, immortality, singularity and eternal recurrence
Joan Copjec has shown that modernity is privy to a notion of immortality all its own - one that differs fundamentally from any counterpart entertained in Greek antiquity or the Christian Middle Ages. She points to Blumenberg and Lefort as thinkers who have construed this concept in its modern guise in different ways, and ultimately opts for Lefort’s paradoxical understanding of immortality as the ‘transcending of time, within time’ before elabora…
Nature as ‘Abject’, Critical Psychology, and ‘Revolt’: The Pertinence of Kristeva
Today nature is put under tremendous pressure through human, including technological, activities — so much so that some haveraised the question of nature's (and all living creatures') survival. It seems as if the world is on a slippery slope, sliding towards its own destruction. Even critical thought and practice seem powerless to affect those in power, whose leadership seems: to bear decisively on whether the current situation can be improved or…
Nature, Capitalism, and the Future of Humankind
This paper addresses the question regarding the relation between capitalism and nature, on the one hand, and that of the continued existence of life, including humankind, on earth in light of the disturbing evidence that has emerged since the early 1970s, concerning massive enviromnental degradation, on the other. It is argued that the evidence of such destruction is there for everyone to see; what is less obvious - in fact, mostly ignored or den…
Lacan and the Question of the Psychotherapist's Ethical Orientation
This article addresses the thorny issue of the psychologist or psychotherapist's values or ethical orientation. The suggestion is made that certain aspects of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytical theory provide the resources to overcome the obstacle of arbitrariness or relativism faced by psychotherapists who unavoidably have to take an ethical stance — implicitly if not explicitly — in relation to clients' or analysands' lives and decisions. The dil…
Sex, literature and communication
This paper addresses the question of the literary representation of the relationship between sex and communication by focusing on a number of pertinent instances in literature (and in one case cinema) where clues are afforded concerning the generation of meaning in this area of human experience. Various philosophical‐theoretical perspectives are employed to shed light on the specificity of communication in a sexual context, guided by the question…
Lacan’s subject: The imaginary, language, the real and philosophy
The thought of the psychoanalytical thinker, Jacques Lacan, is examined in this paper with a view to ascertaining the place and function of the so-called imaginary in it, the symbolic as well as the ‘real’. The extent to which the imaginary or realm of images is construed by Lacan as being the order of identification and a (spurious) sense of unity of the ego or self, is contrasted with the symbolic (or linguistic) order as that of the subject an…
Discourse, agency and the question of evil
This paper addresses the question of evil from an ethical and discourse-analytical perspective, taking Joan Copjec’s commentary on Kant’s notion of ‘radical evil’ and its relation to human freedom as its point of departure. Specifically, Copjec’s argument, that for Kant (and, one may add, for Lacan) the subject is always “in excess of itself”, provides an important foil for, or corrective to what may seem to be the upshot of Foucault’s notion of …
Image, text and figure: Lyotard, Heidegger and Body II: Sublimation
In distinctive ways, Lyotard and Heidegger enable one to understand the unusual interplay between texts and images, or language and iconography, encountered in installation art. In this article, Lyotard's notion of figure and Heidegger's figure of the fourfold are employed to come to grips with the multi-installation, Body 11: Sublimation, presented at the 2002 Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK) in Oudtshoorn
Body, thought, being-human and artificial intelligence: Merleau-Ponty and Lyotard
This article focuses in a comparative manner on the thought of Merleau-Ponty and Lyotard with a view to lending support to Busch’s claim, that ‘existentialism’ preceded poststructuralism and postmodernism as far as criticism of certain features of modem philosophy are concerned. Attention is first given to Lyotard’s critique of artificial intelligence, especially in so far as it displays a dependence on and development of insights on the part of …
Gadamer, Heidegger, play, art and the appropriation of tradition
The present paper is an investigation into the links between Gadamer’s conception of the mode of being of art in terms of ‘play’, and related models in the thought of some of his philosophical precursors, notably Kant and Heidegger. Due attention is given to the shift, in Gadamer’s work, to a less subject-oriented approach to art, compared to those of Kant and Schiller, and the extent to which his own views were shaped by Heidegger’s move away fr…
The amplification of reason, or the recuperation of imagination: Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society
The question addressed here concerns the relation between reason and imagination: is the prejudice against imagination on the part of western philosophers, at least until Kant, justifiable? Or should we, following Kant in (the first edition of) his first Critique, regard imagination as being integral to reason? Moreover, was Shakespeare right, in A midsummer night's dream, about imagination preparing one for mature social and moral action? These …
Teaching philosophy, popular culture, and student experience
In this article I focus on novel approaches open to teachers of philosophy (and, more generally, of the human sciences) who face the task of engaging students' interest in philosophy in the context of an overwhelmingly ‘audiovisual’ culture. Is it true that, as some cultural pessimists have argued, the prospects of a literary/philosophical education are bleak beyond redemption? Or are there alternative ways of giving students access to important …
Nature as ‘Abject’, Critical Psychology, and ‘Revolt’: The Pertinence of Kristeva
Today nature is put under tremendous pressure through human, including technological, activities — so much so that some haveraised the question of nature's (and all living creatures') survival. It seems as if the world is on a slippery slope, sliding towards its own destruction. Even critical thought and practice seem powerless to affect those in power, whose leadership seems: to bear decisively on whether the current situation can be improved or…
Lacan and the Question of the Psychotherapist's Ethical Orientation
This article addresses the thorny issue of the psychologist or psychotherapist's values or ethical orientation. The suggestion is made that certain aspects of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytical theory provide the resources to overcome the obstacle of arbitrariness or relativism faced by psychotherapists who unavoidably have to take an ethical stance — implicitly if not explicitly — in relation to clients' or analysands' lives and decisions. The dil…
Foucault and Individual Autonomy
What does it mean, to be ‘autonomous’, and more specifically, is it still possible to discern a modicum of ‘autonomy’ on the part of people in contemporary ‘carceral’ society to a significant degree — that is, a degree not limited to a handful of individuals whose autonomy one may discern in their ‘critical’ actions vis-à-vis mainstream discourses and behaviour? Is there indeed evidence, as implied by the question above, that the majority of peop…
Lacan’s subject: The imaginary, language, the real and philosophy
The thought of the psychoanalytical thinker, Jacques Lacan, is examined in this paper with a view to ascertaining the place and function of the so-called imaginary in it, the symbolic as well as the ‘real’. The extent to which the imaginary or realm of images is construed by Lacan as being the order of identification and a (spurious) sense of unity of the ego or self, is contrasted with the symbolic (or linguistic) order as that of the subject an…
That Strange Thing Called ‘Identifying’
Is the act of looking unavoidably accompanied by an act of identification (identifying), firstly in the sense of identifying a subject, and secondly of identifying objects as enduring? Identification of objects is here understood as the (unconscious) attribution of enduring identity or substantial sameness to objects in the human world, and of subjects as the experience or awareness of a relatively enduring identity or selfhood on the part of a h…
Negotiating the ‘Paranoiac Structure’ of Human Knowledge: Fowles's The Magus and Lacan
In this article, a reading is offered of John Fowles's novel, The Magus, in an attempt to show that the conception of human ‘knowledge’ put forward in the narrative is an instantiation and development of Lacan's claim that human knowledge is ‘paranoiac’ or delusional. Far from amounting to the claim that humans can and should do without it, though, Fowles, like Lacan, demonstrates in the unfolding story of his main character and narrator, Nichola…
Nature, Capitalism, and the Future of Humankind
This paper addresses the question regarding the relation between capitalism and nature, on the one hand, and that of the continued existence of life, including humankind, on earth in light of the disturbing evidence that has emerged since the early 1970s, concerning massive enviromnental degradation, on the other. It is argued that the evidence of such destruction is there for everyone to see; what is less obvious - in fact, mostly ignored or den…
Discourse, agency and the question of evil
This paper addresses the question of evil from an ethical and discourse-analytical perspective, taking Joan Copjec’s commentary on Kant’s notion of ‘radical evil’ and its relation to human freedom as its point of departure. Specifically, Copjec’s argument, that for Kant (and, one may add, for Lacan) the subject is always “in excess of itself”, provides an important foil for, or corrective to what may seem to be the upshot of Foucault’s notion of …
Van Orwell se 1984 tot die aktualisering daarvan in 2020-2023
From Orwellʼs 1984 to its actualisation in 2020-2023When surveying the recent and arguably increasing signs of attempts to control citizens globally in various ways, one is reminded of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four (or 1984), fi rst published in 1949.It strikes one as being paradigmatic of totalitarian domination in its literary representation of social control through diverse forms of technical and personal surveillance, keeping in mind t…
Signs of Radical Democracy? Deleuze, Badiou, Rancière and Tahrir Square, 2011
How should one make theoretical sense of what has been called 'the miracle of Tahrir Square' – the fact that the Egyptian people successfully ousted a dictator in a peaceful manner, where militant groups had failed to do so by force? In this article it is argued that Deleuze/Guattari's notion of the subject in terms of desiring-machines, flows, schizophrenic production and the 'body-without-organs', enables one to theorise human subjectivity as b…
Body, thought, being-human and artificial intelligence: Merleau-Ponty and Lyotard
This article focuses in a comparative manner on the thought of Merleau-Ponty and Lyotard with a view to lending support to Busch’s claim, that ‘existentialism’ preceded poststructuralism and postmodernism as far as criticism of certain features of modem philosophy are concerned. Attention is first given to Lyotard’s critique of artificial intelligence, especially in so far as it displays a dependence on and development of insights on the part of …
The critical difference: Deconstruction and postmodernism
Although deconstruction seems, at first sight, to be a variety of postmodernism, the matter is not that simple. This article attempts to show that, certain similarities notwithstanding, Derridean deconstruction and postmodernism differ in important respects. It therefore first reconstructs the emergence of deconstruction from Derrida's “critique” of Husserl's transcendental phenomenology, in the course of which the role played by the problematica…
Simbolisme as werklikheidsbenadering: Watter werklikheid
This article puts forward the argument that symbolism as poetic strategy should be approached in terms of its “historical effectiveness” in order to answer questions concerning the literary superiority which has traditionally been attributed to it in some circles. The work of Gadamer and Paul de Man, which focuses in different ways on the historically changing relationship between symbol and allegory serves as basis for the study. While Gadamer c…
Derrida: Philosophy or literature
The present article focuses on the question whether, as Habermas claims, Jacques Derrida collapses the genre distinction between philosophy and literature by means of the (alleged) levelling effect of his notion of textuality. More specifically, Habermas accuses Derrida of failing to respect the normative demands of argumentation that characterize philosophical, as opposed to literary‐expressive language, with the result that his deconstructive d…
Schopenhauer and Beckett: Towards a literature of the unrepresentable∗
The present article explores the relationship between Schopenhauer's philosophy of the will, Beckett's literary art (particularly drama) and the notion of the unrepresentable or the sublime as reformulated by Lyotard. An attempt is made to show that Beckett's work, which has been called postmodern, may be read as an exemplification of what Lyotard terms the modern or nostalgic sublime, recognizable by its allusion to unrepresentable “missing cont…
Teaching philosophy, popular culture, and student experience
In this article I focus on novel approaches open to teachers of philosophy (and, more generally, of the human sciences) who face the task of engaging students' interest in philosophy in the context of an overwhelmingly ‘audiovisual’ culture. Is it true that, as some cultural pessimists have argued, the prospects of a literary/philosophical education are bleak beyond redemption? Or are there alternative ways of giving students access to important …
The amplification of reason, or the recuperation of imagination: Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society
The question addressed here concerns the relation between reason and imagination: is the prejudice against imagination on the part of western philosophers, at least until Kant, justifiable? Or should we, following Kant in (the first edition of) his first Critique, regard imagination as being integral to reason? Moreover, was Shakespeare right, in A midsummer night's dream, about imagination preparing one for mature social and moral action? These …
Body, thought, being-human and artificial intelligence: Merleau-Ponty and Lyotard
This article focuses in a comparative manner on the thought of Merleau-Ponty and Lyotard with a view to lending support to Busch’s claim, that ‘existentialism’ preceded poststructuralism and postmodernism as far as criticism of certain features of modem philosophy are concerned. Attention is first given to Lyotard’s critique of artificial intelligence, especially in so far as it displays a dependence on and development of insights on the part of …
Gadamer, Heidegger, play, art and the appropriation of tradition
The present paper is an investigation into the links between Gadamer’s conception of the mode of being of art in terms of ‘play’, and related models in the thought of some of his philosophical precursors, notably Kant and Heidegger. Due attention is given to the shift, in Gadamer’s work, to a less subject-oriented approach to art, compared to those of Kant and Schiller, and the extent to which his own views were shaped by Heidegger’s move away fr…
Discourse, agency and the question of evil
This paper addresses the question of evil from an ethical and discourse-analytical perspective, taking Joan Copjec’s commentary on Kant’s notion of ‘radical evil’ and its relation to human freedom as its point of departure. Specifically, Copjec’s argument, that for Kant (and, one may add, for Lacan) the subject is always “in excess of itself”, provides an important foil for, or corrective to what may seem to be the upshot of Foucault’s notion of …
Image, text and figure: Lyotard, Heidegger and Body II: Sublimation
In distinctive ways, Lyotard and Heidegger enable one to understand the unusual interplay between texts and images, or language and iconography, encountered in installation art. In this article, Lyotard's notion of figure and Heidegger's figure of the fourfold are employed to come to grips with the multi-installation, Body 11: Sublimation, presented at the 2002 Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK) in Oudtshoorn
Sex, literature and communication
This paper addresses the question of the literary representation of the relationship between sex and communication by focusing on a number of pertinent instances in literature (and in one case cinema) where clues are afforded concerning the generation of meaning in this area of human experience. Various philosophical‐theoretical perspectives are employed to shed light on the specificity of communication in a sexual context, guided by the question…
Lacan’s subject: The imaginary, language, the real and philosophy
The thought of the psychoanalytical thinker, Jacques Lacan, is examined in this paper with a view to ascertaining the place and function of the so-called imaginary in it, the symbolic as well as the ‘real’. The extent to which the imaginary or realm of images is construed by Lacan as being the order of identification and a (spurious) sense of unity of the ego or self, is contrasted with the symbolic (or linguistic) order as that of the subject an…
Nature, Capitalism, and the Future of Humankind
This paper addresses the question regarding the relation between capitalism and nature, on the one hand, and that of the continued existence of life, including humankind, on earth in light of the disturbing evidence that has emerged since the early 1970s, concerning massive enviromnental degradation, on the other. It is argued that the evidence of such destruction is there for everyone to see; what is less obvious - in fact, mostly ignored or den…
Lacan and the Question of the Psychotherapist's Ethical Orientation
This article addresses the thorny issue of the psychologist or psychotherapist's values or ethical orientation. The suggestion is made that certain aspects of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytical theory provide the resources to overcome the obstacle of arbitrariness or relativism faced by psychotherapists who unavoidably have to take an ethical stance — implicitly if not explicitly — in relation to clients' or analysands' lives and decisions. The dil…
Nietzsche, immortality, singularity and eternal recurrence
Joan Copjec has shown that modernity is privy to a notion of immortality all its own - one that differs fundamentally from any counterpart entertained in Greek antiquity or the Christian Middle Ages. She points to Blumenberg and Lefort as thinkers who have construed this concept in its modern guise in different ways, and ultimately opts for Lefort’s paradoxical understanding of immortality as the ‘transcending of time, within time’ before elabora…
Nature as ‘Abject’, Critical Psychology, and ‘Revolt’: The Pertinence of Kristeva
Today nature is put under tremendous pressure through human, including technological, activities — so much so that some haveraised the question of nature's (and all living creatures') survival. It seems as if the world is on a slippery slope, sliding towards its own destruction. Even critical thought and practice seem powerless to affect those in power, whose leadership seems: to bear decisively on whether the current situation can be improved or…
Trauma and Literature: Derrida, 9/11 and Hart's The Reconstructionist
Is “trauma” a viable category in literary theory? That is, could “trauma” be articulated in such a way that, in addition to its acknowledged diagnostic and therapeutic function in psychology and psychoanalysis, it may be shown to have a distinct hermeneutic function where literary fiction is concerned – regarding the generation of the narrative thread, for example? This article investigates these questions in the light of the meaning of “trauma”,…
Negotiating the ‘Paranoiac Structure’ of Human Knowledge: Fowles's The Magus and Lacan
In this article, a reading is offered of John Fowles's novel, The Magus, in an attempt to show that the conception of human ‘knowledge’ put forward in the narrative is an instantiation and development of Lacan's claim that human knowledge is ‘paranoiac’ or delusional. Far from amounting to the claim that humans can and should do without it, though, Fowles, like Lacan, demonstrates in the unfolding story of his main character and narrator, Nichola…
That Strange Thing Called ‘Identifying’
Is the act of looking unavoidably accompanied by an act of identification (identifying), firstly in the sense of identifying a subject, and secondly of identifying objects as enduring? Identification of objects is here understood as the (unconscious) attribution of enduring identity or substantial sameness to objects in the human world, and of subjects as the experience or awareness of a relatively enduring identity or selfhood on the part of a h…
Philosophy and psychoanalytic theory: Collected Essays
Foucault and Individual Autonomy
What does it mean, to be ‘autonomous’, and more specifically, is it still possible to discern a modicum of ‘autonomy’ on the part of people in contemporary ‘carceral’ society to a significant degree — that is, a degree not limited to a handful of individuals whose autonomy one may discern in their ‘critical’ actions vis-à-vis mainstream discourses and behaviour? Is there indeed evidence, as implied by the question above, that the majority of peop…
The Pleasure of Food, and the Spiritual: Eat, Pray, Love and Babette's Feast
This article explores the significance of the enjoyment of food in relation to spirituality, as (re)presented in two texts -Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love (2007) and the cinematic version of Karen Blixen's novel Babette's Feast (1987). It is argued that the pleasure derived from food occupies a crucial position in both texts, firstly in its own “hedonistic” right, but secondly also as far asit functions allegorically (Babette's Feast), or te…
Literature After Ranciére: Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans and Gibson's Neuromancer
In this article the implications of Jacques Ranciére's far-reaching notions of “the distribution of the sensible”, “dissensus” and the “three regimes of art” (particularly for literature) are explored. Kazuo Ishiguro's roman noir entitled When We Were Orphans and William Gibson's dark science fiction novel Neuromancer are examined to demonstrate the novelty of Ranciére's thought, in terms of which the cherished categories of literary orthodoxy ar…
Signs of Radical Democracy? Deleuze, Badiou, Rancière and Tahrir Square, 2011
How should one make theoretical sense of what has been called 'the miracle of Tahrir Square' – the fact that the Egyptian people successfully ousted a dictator in a peaceful manner, where militant groups had failed to do so by force? In this article it is argued that Deleuze/Guattari's notion of the subject in terms of desiring-machines, flows, schizophrenic production and the 'body-without-organs', enables one to theorise human subjectivity as b…
Repetition or Retrieval and Transformation? Derek Hook's (Post)Apartheid Conditions - Psychoanalysis and Social Formation
In (Post)Apartheid Conditions (2013) – the title of which turns out to be richly ambiguous – psychoanalytical theorist Derek Hook, of Birkbeck College, University of London, addresses what might be called the temporal kernel of the question concerning psycho-social change. Not surprisingly, this is predicated on the enduring possibility of the pathological repetition of past social and political formations that have given rise to endemic sufferin…
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