Rethinking Racist Fantasy: Fanon’s ‘European Collective Unconscious’ approached via Lacan

Part of BGSP’s Department of Continuing Education Events’ 2023-2024 Speaker Series: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Race, Racism, and Culture.

Presenter: Derek Hook, Ph.D.

Discussant: Siamak Movahedi, Ph.D.

The question of how Lacanian psychoanalysis influenced Frantz Fanon’s decolonial ideas is one which has received much attention of late. There are several areas where this apparently unlikely conjunction of theories has tended to focus such as: Fanon’s use of Lacan’s notion of the mirror stage and the idea of the libidinal intensity (or jouissance) of racism. What has received less attention is how Fanon’s notion of the European Collective Unconscious – a concept he develops via a borrowing and adaptation from Jung – might be further developed via a Lacanian notion of fantasy. This talk will both foreground the constituent elements of fantasy from a Lacanian standpoint and explore how this particular theorization of fantasy enables us to highlight and extend various aspects of Fanon’s own conceptualization of racist fantasy. We will draw on texts by Laplanche and Pontalis, Zizek, and of course Lacan and Fanon, to help us with this task.

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2 Continuing Ed units/clock hours are available for this event.

BGSP is authorized to provide CEs for: Psychologists (all levels), Social Workers, Counselors

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