ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I define the foundational constructs on which the research is based: Blackness, Africana womanism, and Third Worldism. I also explain concepts of: Western epistemic dominance, subjectivity, the Third space decolonial imaginary, currere, and autobiographical memory. I explore the complex relationship between psychoanalysis and colonization, grappling with the tension of mobilizing psychoanalysis as a means toward decolonization. I extend the notion of decolonization in general in its relation to rehumanization of the formerly colonized subject, and in light of existing theory, I set the stage for the etching out of a new idea in the politics of re-humanization and decolonization through autobiography at the interior subjective locus.
