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- Title
Postcolonial Ethical Subjectivity and Psychoanalytic Subject Formation: Beyala's Tu t'appelleras Tanga and Revising Lacanian Paradigms.
- Authors
Wehrs, Donald R.
- Abstract
Calixthe Beyala's 1988 novel, Tu t'appelleras Tanga, discloses both the usefulness of French psychoanalysis for exploring postcolonial modes of identity and the value of revising Lacan along lines elaborated by Julia Kristeva. The latter allows psychoanalytic accounts of subject formation to enter into fruitful dialogue with both Levinasian ethical philosophy and neuroscientific research. By linking body and speech, by retrieving Melanie Klein in ways that entwine affect, empathy, and nascent ethical consciousness, Kristeva moves French psychoanalysis toward reconciliation with Levinas and neuroscience, and thus away from models of identity that Beyala's novel depicts as both distinctive to Western subjectivity and antagonistic to psychically and socially regenerative sociality.
- Subjects
BEYALA, Calixthe; TU t'appelleras Tanga (Book); PSYCHOANALYSIS in literature; UNCANNY, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature; LACAN, Jacques, 1901-1981
- Publication
French Literature Series, 2011, Vol 38, Issue 1, p143
- ISSN
0271-6607
- Publication type
Article