Apartheid and the unconscious: An introduction

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dc.contributor.authorTruscott, Ross
dc.contributor.authorvan Bever Donker, Maurits
dc.contributor.authorHook, Derek
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-27T07:58:04Z
dc.date.available2023-06-27T07:58:04Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThis special issue invited contributors to revisit J.M. Coetzee�s �The Mind of Apartheid,� first published in Social Dynamics in 1991. Here, Coetzee asks what it might mean to come to terms with apartheid:It is not inconceivable that in the not too distant future, the era of apartheid will be proclaimed to be over. The unlovely creature will be laid to rest, and joy among nations will be unconfined. But what exactly is it that will be buried? (Coetzee 1991, 1)Responding to his own question, Coetzee reads the texts of sociologist and Broederbond intellectual, Geoffrey Cronj�. Drawing on psychoanalysis, Coetzee diagnoses the version of apartheid Cronj� set out during the period between 1945 and 1948 as an obsessional neurotic �counterattack upon desire� (18). What so disturbed Cronj�, Coetzee argues, was the �blunting [afstomping]� of psychological resistances to �race-mixing� (18). But Cronj�s texts, as Coetzee reads them, also betray a psychic investment in precisely �the dissolution of difference� against which he set himself, a �fascination� with �the mixed� (21�22). Railing against miscegenation, it was always on Cronj�s mind.en_US
dc.identifier.citationTruscott, R. et al. (2023). Apartheid and the unconscious: An introduction. Social Dynamics, 49(1), 1�12. https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2023.2184142en_US
dc.identifier.issn1940-7874
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2023.2184142
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/9161
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Groupen_US
dc.subjectApartheiden_US
dc.subjectPoliticsen_US
dc.subjectDemocracyen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectTruth and Reconciliation Commissionen_US
dc.titleApartheid and the unconscious: An introductionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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