Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race

by Ann Pellegrini

Book Overview

Performance Anxieties looks at the on-going debates over the value of psychoanalysis for feminist theory and politics--specifically concerning the social and psychical meanings of racialization. Beginning with an historicized return to Freud and the meaning of Jewishness in Freud's day, Ann Pellegrini indicates how "race" and racialization are not incidental features of psychoanalysis or of modern subjectivity, but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415916860
• ISBN13: 9780415916868
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"