Hegel, Freud and Fanon: The Dialectic Of Emancipation (Creolizing The Canon) - Softcover

This is an exciting, and perhaps for some controversial, book. With a nuanced sensibility to the originality of Fanon's thought, Bird-Pollan challenges us to rethink the importance of Freud's metapsychology (especially the Oedipus complex) and Hegel's dialectic of recognition on Fanon's thinking about emancipation. -- Nigel C. Gibson, Associate Professor, Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College Bird-Pollan offers an agile analysis of the relationship between negativity and self-integration in Hegel, Freud, and Fanon, challenging the by now standard idea that fragmentation is intrinsic to human subjectivity, and making a strong case for a socio-political understanding of traumatization. -- Mari Ruti, Professor of Critical Theory, University of Toronto

An examination of Hegel and Freud as the twin influences on the work of Frantz Fanon, culminating in a new theory of emancipation.