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- Title
THE RACIAL STEREOTYPE, COLONIAL DISCOURSE, FETISHISM, AND RACISM.
- Authors
Hook, Derek
- Abstract
The article focuses on the racial stereotype, colonial discourse, fetishism, and racism. Stereotyping processes are, like fetish objects themselves, kinds of wishful mechanisms. They function as hopeful ways of dealing with, or understanding, the "object" in question, the racial "other," without actually engaging the other in the fullness of contradictory experience and diversity. The stereotype, in this sense, protects against contradictions, and works as an endlessly repeated means of keeping diversity at bay, reducing difference to the stark contrasts of a Manichean dichotomy. It becomes apparent then how the object of racism, the racial "other" along with the stereotyping processes through which the other is known and approached might be seen to be precious, because he or she enables a kind of protective functioning of subjectivity.
- Subjects
PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; FETISHISM (Religion); RACISM in psychology; ETHNOCENTRISM; PHOBIAS
- Publication
Psychoanalytic Review, 2005, Vol 92, Issue 5, p701
- ISSN
0033-2836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1521/prev.2005.92.5.701