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The gauche intruder : Freud, Lacan and the white Australian fantasy / Jennifer Rutherford.

Title
The gauche intruder : Freud, Lacan and the white Australian fantasy / Jennifer Rutherford.
Author
Rutherford, Jennifer.
Publication
Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2000.

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Description
xi, 239 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
This title traces the formation of an Australian moral code at the heart of white Australian identity. Reflecting on the persistence of this code into the 21st century, it seeks to show how it "has engendered, and continues to engender, not only brutality to others, but brutality to the self."
Alternative Title
Freud, Lacan and the white Australian fantasy
Subject
  • White Australia policy
  • National characteristics, Australian
  • Aggressiveness > Australia
  • Multiculturalism > Australia
  • Psychoanalysis and culture > Australia
  • Psychoanalysis and racism > Australia
  • Australia > Social life and customs
  • Australia > Politics and government
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-232) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0522849172
LCCN
^^2001430929
OCLC
50041644
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library