RU106: PROFESSOR SHELDON GEORGE ON PSYCHOANALYSIS, TRAUMA & RACE, LACAN

Rendering Unconscious Podcast: Psychoanalysis & Culture · Aug 29, 2020 · 1h 1m

Sheldon George is Professor of English and Chair of the English department at Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts. His scholarship centers most directly on Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and applies cultural and literary theory to analyses of American and African-American literature and culture. He is author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity and coeditor, with Jean Wyatt, of Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers: Race, Ethics, Narrative Form. He is currently completing a collection coedited with Derek Hook for…