Neil Lazarus, The Postcolonial Unconscious
The “unconscious” in Neil Lazarus’s title refers not to Freudian theory, but to a form of social forgetting analysed by Fredric Jameson, notably in The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (1981), which Lazarus’s own title alludes to, and which involves, for example, the “eff...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Samenvatting: | The “unconscious” in Neil Lazarus’s title refers not to Freudian theory, but to a form of social forgetting analysed by Fredric Jameson, notably in The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (1981), which Lazarus’s own title alludes to, and which involves, for example, the “effacement of the traces of production” of an object (107). Lazarus’s point is to call, along with Jameson, for a “return of the repressed” elements of culture, and therefore a reshifting of paradigms... |
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