Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism

SIMON CLARKE is Associate Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies, CESER Research Fellow, and Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England. He has published widely on the psychoanalytic understanding of racism, ethnic hatred and social exclusion, and is Associate Editor of the Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.

'Simon Clarke's interesting and engaging book at least gives us enough to work with in plotting the importance of psychoanalytic ideas in understanding the persistence and destructiveness of racism.' - Grahame Hayes, Psychology in Society

• Sociology, Racism and PsychoanalysisThe Concept(s) of Race(s) and Racism(s)New Racism(s) for OldSociology, Racism and ModernityFreud, Racism and PsychoanalysisThe Frankfurt School: Paranoid Projection and the Persecuted OtherColonial Identity and Ethnic Hatred: Fanon, Lacan and ZizekMelanie Klein: Racism and PsychoanalysisProjection, Projective Identification and RacismConclusionReferencesFurther ReadingIndex.