Lacan's psycho-analytic evacuation of the rainbow nation identity

Lacan's psycho-analytic evacuation of the rainbow nation identity

Given the increasing displacement of the essentialist racial categories of the past and the emergence of often-superficial theorisations of race in terms of the diverse South African experiences of difference and Otherness, this article seeks to reassess and reassert our theoretical frameworks that...

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Main Author: Jerome-Alexander van Wyk
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association 2018-04-01
Series:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
Subjects:
rainbow nation
identity
Lacanian psycho-analysis
rainbowism
South African identity
Online Access:https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/4933
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Lacan's psycho-analytic evacuation of the rainbow nation identity
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
rainbow nation
identity
Lacanian psycho-analysis
rainbowism
South African identity
author_facet Jerome-Alexander van Wyk
author_sort Jerome-Alexander van Wyk
title Lacan's psycho-analytic evacuation of the rainbow nation identity
title_short Lacan's psycho-analytic evacuation of the rainbow nation identity
title_full Lacan's psycho-analytic evacuation of the rainbow nation identity
title_fullStr Lacan's psycho-analytic evacuation of the rainbow nation identity
title_full_unstemmed Lacan's psycho-analytic evacuation of the rainbow nation identity
title_sort lacan's psycho-analytic evacuation of the rainbow nation identity
publisher Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association
series Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
issn 0041-476X
2309-9070
publishDate 2018-04-01
description Given the increasing displacement of the essentialist racial categories of the past and the emergence of often-superficial theorisations of race in terms of the diverse South African experiences of difference and Otherness, this article seeks to reassess and reassert our theoretical frameworks that constitute or question the idea of our rainbow nation identity formations. The article employs Lacanian psychoanalysis to contest rainbowism for its under-theorised and often simplistic perspectives on the one hand, and its ideological and limited representations on the other.
topic rainbow nation
identity
Lacanian psycho-analysis
rainbowism
South African identity
url https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/tvl/article/view/4933
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