rethinking subjectivity in the Western experiment of democracy /
Danjuma G. Gibson.
Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
1 online resource
Black religion, womanist thought, social justice
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Main Argument; A Hermeneutic of Affective Attunement; Bibliography; Chapter 2: The Intersubjective Matrix of the Slavocracy: Experiencing the World of Frederick Douglass; The Slavocracy; The Intrapsychic Horror of the Slavocracy; The Slavocracy, the Patriarchal Family, and Caricatures of Humanity; Caricatures of Religion, Family, and Black Subjectivity; Slavery and the Corruption of the Bystander; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Reimagining Black Subjectivity: A Psychoanalysis of Frederick Douglass; Introduction of the Force of Being
Chapter 5: The Force of Being, Life Stories, and Counter-Narrative: A Brief Comment on Cultural Trauma and ResiliencyBibliography; Chapter 6: A Constructive Theology of Deliverance: Redeeming the Internal Force of Being; A Theology of Deliverance; Christian Participation, the Slavocracy, and the Demonic; Deliverance and Black Liberation Theology; Where Does Douglass Situate Himself Theologically?; Bibliography; Chapter 7: Remembering, Lament, and Public Ritual: Redeeming the Democratic Experiment; Towards Redeeming the Democracy Experiment: A Eucharistic Model; Bibliography; Index
The Intersubjective Matrix/MilieuLiving in the Intersubjective Matrix; Examining Frederick Douglass' God-Image and Religious Disposition; Cultivating the Force of Being10; Introduction to Bodily Redemption; Bibliography; Chapter 4: A New Birth: Agency Over One's Self and Body and Sacred Spaces of Play; The Force of Being and Sacred Spaces of Play; The New Birth: Frederick Douglass and Bodily Redemption; A Theoretical Discussion of Bodily Redemption: Douglass vs. Covey; Trauma and the Force of Being; Bibliography
0
8
8
In the extreme context of the American slavocracy, how do we account for the robust subjectivity and agency of Frederick Douglass? In an environment of extremity, where most contemporary psychological theory suggests the human spirit would be vanquished, how did Frederick Douglass emerge to become one of the most prolific thinkers of the 19th century? To address this question, this book engages in a psychoanalytic examination of all four of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies. Danjuma Gibson examines when, how, and why Douglass tells his story in the manner he does, how his story shifts and takes shape with each successive autobiography, and the resulting psychodynamic, pastoral, and practical theological implications.
Springer Nature
com.springer.onix.9783319752297
9783319752280
Douglass, Frederick,1818-1895.
Douglass, Frederick,1818-1895.
Abolitionists-- United States, Biography.
African American abolitionists, Biography.
Antislavery movements-- United States-- History.
Slaves-- United States, Biography.
Abolitionists.
African American abolitionists.
Antislavery movements.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.
HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- General.