Michelle A Stephens
Biographic Data
| ID | 640699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle A Stephens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle A |
| FAMILY NAME | Stephens |
| SIGNATURE | STEPHENS M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, 7 College Avenue, Winants Hall, Suite 316, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
We Have Never Been White
Amidst a pandemic and the events following George Floyd’s murder in 2020, discussions of race have escalated in the psychoanalytic community. One theoretical formulation, Afropessimism, has served as a lightning rod across both psychoanalytic and academic circles. Another, Black Rage, offers a psychoanalytic theory of the psychic effect of racial oppression on traumatized subjects. Using both as catalysts, this essay explores the historicity of t…
Islands of Encounter
What is an encounter? What is an island? How can discourses on islands speak to our understanding of the place of practice and the placing of affect in the psychoanalytic encounter? Using notions of the island in philosophy and Caribbean Studies, this essay offers a brief reflection on the psychoanalytic encounter as an islanded field of interaction. The psychoanalytic frame islands analyst and analysand, setting the experience in the consulting …
Creole America
Book Review| September 01 2007 Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic; Reworlding America: Myth, History, and Narrative; What Women Lose: Exile and the Construction of Imaginary Homelands in Novels by Caribbean Writers Michelle A. Stephens Michelle A. Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 623–625. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029…
Babylon's 'Natural Mystic'
Bob Marley's significance as a popular cultural icon, both during his initial emergence in North America in the 1970s and after his death in 1981, has been a constantly evolving phenomenon. As American society and culture has adapted to the presence of new, racialized, West Indian immigrants, so too has Marley's legend been adapted to fit the changing moods of the past three decades. This article identifies and examines three aspects of Marley's …
We Have Never Been White
Amidst a pandemic and the events following George Floyd’s murder in 2020, discussions of race have escalated in the psychoanalytic community. One theoretical formulation, Afropessimism, has served as a lightning rod across both psychoanalytic and academic circles. Another, Black Rage, offers a psychoanalytic theory of the psychic effect of racial oppression on traumatized subjects. Using both as catalysts, this essay explores the historicity of t…
Babylon's 'Natural Mystic'
Bob Marley's significance as a popular cultural icon, both during his initial emergence in North America in the 1970s and after his death in 1981, has been a constantly evolving phenomenon. As American society and culture has adapted to the presence of new, racialized, West Indian immigrants, so too has Marley's legend been adapted to fit the changing moods of the past three decades. This article identifies and examines three aspects of Marley's …
Creole America
Book Review| September 01 2007 Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic; Reworlding America: Myth, History, and Narrative; What Women Lose: Exile and the Construction of Imaginary Homelands in Novels by Caribbean Writers Michelle A. Stephens Michelle A. Stephens Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 623–625. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029…
Islands of Encounter
What is an encounter? What is an island? How can discourses on islands speak to our understanding of the place of practice and the placing of affect in the psychoanalytic encounter? Using notions of the island in philosophy and Caribbean Studies, this essay offers a brief reflection on the psychoanalytic encounter as an islanded field of interaction. The psychoanalytic frame islands analyst and analysand, setting the experience in the consulting …
We Have Never Been White
Amidst a pandemic and the events following George Floyd’s murder in 2020, discussions of race have escalated in the psychoanalytic community. One theoretical formulation, Afropessimism, has served as a lightning rod across both psychoanalytic and academic circles. Another, Black Rage, offers a psychoanalytic theory of the psychic effect of racial oppression on traumatized subjects. Using both as catalysts, this essay explores the historicity of t…
History (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works)