ABSTRACT
Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory has extensive growth as a form of social critique. Over the four decades since his passing, scholars have engaged Lacan’s work within numerous traditions: from discourse analysis to feminism and feminist philosophy; from ideology critique, Marxism, and radical political theory to postcolonial and decolonial criticism; from queer and transgender theory to the ends of various forms of progressive politics. A crucial factor enabling us to move beyond the parameters of much contemporary theorizing about race and racism concerns the clinic, and, more directly, the vocabulary that emerges from the realm of Lacanian clinical practice. For such accounting, in the clinic and beyond, Kareen Malone and Tiara Jackson turn to Afropessimism, one of the most formidable and challenging critical perspectives on white supremacy and global racism to have emerged in recent years. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
