The Multicultural Imagination: "Race", Color, and the Unconscious (Opening Out) - Softcover

Vannoy Adams, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415138388 ISBN 13: 9780415138383

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

The Multicultural Imagination is a challenging inquiry into the complex interrelationship between our ideas about race and color and the unconscious. Michael Vannoy Adams takes a fresh look at the contributions of psychoanalysis to a question which affects every individual who tries to establish an effective personal identity in the context of their received 'racial' identity.
Adams argues that 'race' is just as important as sex or any other content of the unconcscious, drawing on clinical case materal from contemporary patients for whom 'race' or color is a vitally significant social and political concern that impacts on them personally. He does not assume that racism or 'colorism' will simply vanish if we psychoanalyse them, but shows how a non-defensive ego and a self-image that is receptive to other-images can move us towards a more productive discourse of cultural differences.
Wide-ranging in its references and scope, this is a book that provokes the reader - analyst or not - to confront personally those unconscious attitudes which stand in the way of authentic multicultural relationships.

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The Multicultural Imagination A challenging inquiry into the complex interrelationship between our ideas about race and color and the unconscious, provoking the reader to confront those unconscious attitudes that stand in the way of authentic multicultural relationships. Full description

Synopsis:

This text takes a look at the contributions of depth psychology to a question which affects every individual who tries to establish an effective personal identity in the context of their received "racial" identity. The author argues that "race" is just as important as sex or any other content of the unconcscious, drawing on clinical case material from contemporary patients for whom "race" or color is a vitally significant social and political concern that impacts on them personally. There is no assumption that racism or "colourism" will simply vanish if we psychoanalyse them, but the text shows how a non-defensive ego and a self-image that is receptive to other-images can move us towards a more productive discourse of cultural differences.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0415138388
• ISBN 13: 9780415138383
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294