The Perversity of Colonial Desire: The Erotics of the Settler Unconscious
Department
Social Work and Human Services
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2023
Abstract
This article engages a Lacanian psychoanalytic reading of the process of subjectification that produces the settler as a social subject. The analysis is rooted in a reading of Lacan through Deleuze and Guattari, which the article argues may offer an alternative nonessentialist and more historically grounded analysis. Specifically, this article attends to the role that the fetish plays in the ongoing cultural appropriation of Indigenous spirituality and culture within an ongoing neocolonial material context.
Journal Title
Cultural Critique
Journal ISSN
08824371
Issue
119
First Page
22
Last Page
43
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1353/cul.2023.0012
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