Lacanian Perspectives on Racism (3/6): What does the racist Other want? (Sheldon George, Derek Hook)

Sheldon George and Derek Hook interviewed by Andrew Poe and Enda Deburca Is the big Other Racist? Lacanian social theory makes a series of important contributions to how we think about the operation of racism as ideology. Crucial here are the concepts of the big Other (a kind of indivisible mediator between the sociological and the psychical), fantasy, and object a. (Many thanks to Michael Benn and colleagues at ’Psychoanalytic Thinking’ (https://psychoanalytic ) and the Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Facebook Group for permission to share this interview).