Thomas Olver
Biographic Data
| ID | 6398563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Olver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Olver |
| SIGNATURE | OLVER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pretoria, South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Radical Freud (Part Two)
The author focuses on bisexuality in a continued analysis of Freud's radical sexual theory. A close reading of texts from Freud's work, in particular “The Ego and the Id,” demonstrates how Freud puts forward a bisexuality thesis in parallel and as an alternative to his thesis of the Oedipus complex. This bisexuality thesis is premised on the mechanism of object cathexis and identification by which the ego and superego are formed. The textual exca…
The Subject of the Dialectic
On the basis of a previous reading (Olver, 2023) of Freud's work that reveals a bisexuality thesis, the author discusses several interrelated consequences of this thesis, including the nature of desire and primal unity, a restatement of shame, the semiotic model, and the emergence of society and the economy with reference to the ego and the superego. These consequences together encapsulate and describe the dialectic of the subject. The author sho…
Selves in Question
Wide-ranging and engaging, Selves in Question considers the various ways in which auto/biographical accounts situate and question the self in contemporary southern Africa.The twenty-seven interviews presented here consider both the ontological status and the representation of the self. They remind us that the self is constantly under construction in webs of interlocution and that its status and representation are always in question. The contribut…
Zoë Wicomb on David's story
(2004). Zoe Wicomb on David's story. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 131-142
Introduction
Zoë Wicomb interviewed on writing and nation
Writing and Living in Empire S: Modernity is intimately connected to certain notions of empire, the novel, history, truth, and race we would like to discuss. You live in Scotland, what is sometimes called the first English colony. Your writing, however, centres on another outpost of the British empire. So, could we begin by rephrasing a rather threadbare question in more general terms: given the significance of absence, repression, and longing fi…
Mad dogs and Englishmen
The English of the old colonizer is of no value in the new project of nation building. Our response to the needs and demands of government and industry needs to be creative and immediate
A visit to the Tower of Babel
Mad dogs and Englishmen
The English of the old colonizer is of no value in the new project of nation building. Our response to the needs and demands of government and industry needs to be creative and immediate
A visit to the Tower of Babel
Zoë Wicomb interviewed on writing and nation
Writing and Living in Empire S: Modernity is intimately connected to certain notions of empire, the novel, history, truth, and race we would like to discuss. You live in Scotland, what is sometimes called the first English colony. Your writing, however, centres on another outpost of the British empire. So, could we begin by rephrasing a rather threadbare question in more general terms: given the significance of absence, repression, and longing fi…
Zoë Wicomb on David's story
(2004). Zoe Wicomb on David's story. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 131-142
Introduction
Selves in Question
Wide-ranging and engaging, Selves in Question considers the various ways in which auto/biographical accounts situate and question the self in contemporary southern Africa.The twenty-seven interviews presented here consider both the ontological status and the representation of the self. They remind us that the self is constantly under construction in webs of interlocution and that its status and representation are always in question. The contribut…
Radical Freud (Part Two)
The author focuses on bisexuality in a continued analysis of Freud's radical sexual theory. A close reading of texts from Freud's work, in particular “The Ego and the Id,” demonstrates how Freud puts forward a bisexuality thesis in parallel and as an alternative to his thesis of the Oedipus complex. This bisexuality thesis is premised on the mechanism of object cathexis and identification by which the ego and superego are formed. The textual exca…
The Subject of the Dialectic
On the basis of a previous reading (Olver, 2023) of Freud's work that reveals a bisexuality thesis, the author discusses several interrelated consequences of this thesis, including the nature of desire and primal unity, a restatement of shame, the semiotic model, and the emergence of society and the economy with reference to the ego and the superego. These consequences together encapsulate and describe the dialectic of the subject. The author sho…
Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · South African History and Culture (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)