Psycho-politics And Cultural Desires

Psycho-politics and Cultural Desires For Mike and Esme, Karen and Shenell Psycho-politics and Cultural Desires Edited by Jan Campbell and Janet Harbord © Jan Campbell, Janet Harbord and contributors, 1998 This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. No reproduction without permission. All rights reserved. First published in 1998 by UCL Press UCL Press Limited 1 Gunpowder Square London EC4A 3DE UK and 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101 Bristol Pennsylvania 19007–1598 USA This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” The name of University College London (UCL) is a registered trade mark used by UCL Press with the consent of the owner. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data are available ISBN 0-203-98080-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBNS: 1-85728-806-8 (Print Edition) HB 1-85728-807-6 (Print Edition) PB Contents Introduction Jan Campbell and Janet Harbord Part I: Politics and psychoanalysis 1 27 1 Beyond Marxism and psychoanalysis Gary Hall 28 2 Gay men and female identification: pathololgy or cultural dissent? Stephen Maddison 48 Part II: Between psychic processes and culture 63 3 Politics and psychotherapy Andrew Samuels 64 4 For Esmé with love and squalor lan Campbell 86 Part III: Race, ethnicity and fantasy 106 5 Psychopolitics: Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks Vicky Lebeau 107 6 In memory of absent fathers: black paternity and social spectatorship David Marriott 118 Part IV: History and postmodernism 136 7 Out of the past: psychoanalysis, trauma and the limits to recollection Tina Papoulias 137 8 The poetics of opacity: readability and literary form Peter Nicholls 150 vi Part V: Corporeality 9 10 163 Identification’s edge: dreams, bodies and the butcher’s wife Janet Harbord 164 Writing the adolescent body Jo Croft 181 Part VI: Auto/biography 194 11 Backward glances Jonathan Rutherford 195 12 Creative writing and problems of identity: a Horneyan perspective Celia Hunt 207 Index 224 Notes on Contributors Jan Campbell is working as a part-time lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at Sussex University. She also works as an analytical psychotherapist in Brighton. She has published on psychoanalysis and critical/cultural theory and is author of Arguing with the Phallus: Feminist, Queer and Postcolonial Theory: a Psychoanalytic Contribution. (Forthcoming from ZED Books). Jo Croft completed a doctoral thesis on childhood and psychoanalysis at the University of Sussex, and is currently a lecturer in English at John Moore’s Univers