Index

Abjection, 18–19, 70, 121
Abolition, 19
Acknowledgment, 177, 181, 187n35, 218n85; mourning as method of, xii
Aeschylus, Oresteia trilogy, 16, 112–17
Aggression, 26, 47, 57, 71, 80, 88, 124
Agonism, 13, 16–19, 38–39, 43–57, 133, 148, 154–60, 187n37; consensualism and, 31–33, 93; Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission and, 156; Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and, 140
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (Act UP), 40–43, 55
Alford, C. Fred, 23, 81, 108, 121, 192n101, 193n150, 194n156, 210n87
Allen, Danielle, 8, 191n92, 199n11, 205n4
Ambivalence, 31–32, 42, 45–47, 90–91, 193n135; of Antigone, 58–60; depressive position and, 29–30; mourning and, 24–28
Amnesty, 142–43
Anderson, Elizabeth, 199n11, 201n78, 204n156
Anger, 37–39, 41–42, 52–55, 138–39, 174; democracy and, 39, 57–58; depressive position and, 47; grief and, 17, 63
Antigone, xiii, 17–19, 38–39, 50–63; agonism and, 17, 39–41
Apology, Age of, xiii, 7, 131
Arendt, Hannah, 188n45, 204n151, 211n121, 216n123
Aristotle, 110–11, 124
Associations. See Democracy
Autonomy, Antigone and, 59–60, 62
Baldwin, James, 45, 69, 88–90, 98–99
Balfour, Lawrie, 187n34
Berlant, Lauren, 166–68, 174–75
Bias. See Racial prejudice
Bion, Wilfred, 108
Black Lives Matter, xi–xii, 161–63, 177, 183–84
Brown, Michael, xi, 161–62, 169–70, 184
Brown, Wendy, 11
Brown v. Board of Education, 2, 151, 186n8
Butler, Joseph, 94, 201n81
Butler, Judith, 4–5, 17, 48–54, 174; on Antigone, 50–52
Capitalism, 1
Caruth, Cathy, 194n156
Catharsis, 103, 122–25, 138
Citizen, An American Lyric. See Rankine, Claudia
Citizenship, 14, 83, 163–66, 168; moral psychology and, 83
Civility, 3–4, 151–52, 186n8
Civil rights, 2–4, 12, 163–66; memorialization of, 20–21
Civil Rights Greensboro Project, 185n1
Civil rights movement, 10, 20–21
Coalition, 184
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, 165, 168–72
Cohen, Leonard, 161
Colonialism, 21
Communist Workers Party (CWP), 1–3, 18–19, 37
Consensualism, 19–21, 32, 68, 92–94
Consensus, 22, 69
Crimes, 89, 142; historical, xv
Crimp, Douglas, 40–41, 44
Culture, 149–50; and disavowal, 40–43; mourning in, xii, 177–78. See also Democracy
Customs of social interaction, 178–79
Dean, Jodi, 167, 177
Death: AIDS and, 40; grievable, 4, 21; part objects and, 25
Death instinct, 63
Defenses, 24, 117, 132–33; against grief, 45–46; funeral orations and, 78; of paranoid-schizoid position, 25–27, 30–31; politics and, 23, 68–69; recurrence of, 24
Deliberation, xiv, 98, 193n147, 205n163; catharsis and, 125; Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission and, 3, 6
Delusion, 113
Democracy: associational life and, 7, 157–58, 178–81; culture of, xiv, 8, 164, 168; dialogue and, 35, 69; ideals of, xv, 163, 168–69, 175; psychoanalysis and, 14. See also Deliberation; Public Work
Denial, 208n60
Depression, 29
Depressive position, 24–29, 47–48, 171; agency of, 28, 101–3, 110, 135, 150, 158; mourning and, 28–29
Dialogue. See Democracy
“Die-in” Protests, xi
Discourses, 2, 6, 20, 184; of grief, 7; of human rights, 212n7; psychic life and, 30; social traumas and, 10–12
Disrespect, 7–8, 43, 45, 162, 169–70, 173–74, 178–79; microaggressions, 166, 172; race and, xii–xiii; responses to, 34, 173
Domination, 76–77, 86–88, 136, 163; power and, 32
Douglas, Mary, 202n83
Douglass, Frederick, 22, 91
Drives. See Instincts
Dylan, Bob, xiv, 37
Ego: good object and, 154; integration of 26, 29–30, 107, 121, 160; mourning and, 15, 24, 46–47; positions and, 24–27, 74–75; splitting of, 61
Eliasoph, Nina, 219n102, 219n103
Elshtain, Jean, 53, 187n37
Emancipation, 168; psychoanalysis and, 14
Envy, 68, 71, 80–82, 95, 111
Equality, 3, 19–20, 87, 167
Ethical categories replacing political categories, 143
Ethics, 201n78
Euben, Peter, 104, 209n72
Eulogy. See Funeral orations
Fanaticism, 189n54
Fanon, Frantz, 11
Farber, Yael, 103, 125–28
Forgiveness, 117, 132–38
Fraser, Nancy, 194n160
Freud, Sigmund, 15, 160; on the drives, 23, 57; on justice, 68, 80–81; on mourning, 46–47, 123; on the superego, 71–73, 80, 86
Funeral orations, 10, 20–22, 70–75
Funerals: and political protests, 5–6, 37–38; moral pressure of, 12
Glaude, Eddie, 187n36
Goldhill, Simon, 109, 116–17, 125
Good object, 27, 32, 61, 92–93, 108, 121, 134–35, 141–42, 154, 156–57, 181; Great Dionysia as, 130; South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission as, 103, 129, 149
Gray, Freddie, 6, 161–66
Great Dionysia, 103–7, 130
Greek tragedy, xiii, 101–7, 110; mourning and, 205n7. See also Great Dionysia
Greensboro, NC, 1–4, 33–36, 150–52; history of, 215n95
Greensboro Massacre, 1–3
Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, xiv, 3–4, 35–36, 150–60, 182
Grief, 17–18, 43–44
Grunebaum, Heidi, 133, 140–42
Guilt, 25, 27, 41–42, 46–47, 172, 208n61
Habermas, Jurgen, 79, 136–37, 192n103, 201n78
Hate. See Love-hate conflict, integration of
Herman, Judith, 194n156
Hill, Joe, 40, 168
Honig, Bonnie, 30, 52–57; on Antigone, 52–57; on mourning, 64–65, 199n17; on Rawls, 202n105
Honneth, Axel, 8, 28, 164–65; interconnection between political and psychological, 13–14; on political disenchantment, 178; on psychoanalysis, 13–34; on recognition, 34, 45; tension between I and Me, 176
hooks, bell, 44–45
Human rights, 132–33, 144
Idealization, 5, 16–17, 68, 72–74; and Antigone, 60–61; as defense, 27, 45–46, 89, 111, 117; and good object, 69, 92, 181; truth and reconciliation and, 130, 141–42, 157
Ideal theory, 67, 77–78, 201n60
Identification, 118–21
Identity, 18; American, 89, 168; collective, 74, 112, 119, 146; mourning and, 195n1; national, 30, 64; and traditions, 137; wounded, 46, 144–45
Inequality. See Racial inequality
Injustice, xiii, 34, 67, 133, 200n58; funerals and, 5; racial, 93, 98; structural, 9, 137
Innocence, 89–90, 169–70; American belief in, xv
Instincts. See Passions
Integration, 58, 69–70, 95, 107, 112, 120–21, 157, 160; and social justice, 144; good object and, 154; racial, 201n78
International Center for Transitional Justice, 135
Iraq war, 40
Jackson, Jesse, 161
Judgment, 77–78, 81–82
Justice, 145–46; liability vs. social connection models, 9, 137; memory and, 11, 140; recognition and, 7–9; revolutionary, 188n49; truth and reconciliation, 131. See also Rawls, John
Kant, Immaneul, 201n78
Klein, Melanie, 15, 23–27; on anger, 47–48; on the depressive position, 24–28, 75; goal of analysis, 107; good object, 92, 156; mourning, 23–27, 54, 134; on the paranoid-schizoid position, 45–48, 67–69, 74–75, 108
Kovel, Joel, 23
Kramer, Larry, 40
Kristeva, Julia, 18
Ku Klux Klan, 1–3, 18
Lacan, Jacques, 59, 167, 196n31; on Antigone, 197n71; on misrecognition, 207n46
Lacapra, Dominick, 189n64
Liberalism, 204n147; and race, 76–77. See also Rawls, John
Lichterman, Paul, 178–82
Likierman, Meira, 36, 93
Loraux, Nicole, 10, 20, 42–44, 66, 95; on funeral orations, 66
Loss, social legibility of, 4. See also Grief
Love, 25–26, 28, 75
Love-hate conflict, integration of, 27, 59, 112, 117
Lynchings, 165
Maine-Wabanaki State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission, xiii, 158
Mamdani, Mahmoud, 44, 138, 143
Manic defense, 25, 91, 114; Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and, 134
Markell, Patchen, 187n35
Martin, Trayon, xi, 161, 184
Meister, Robert, 11, 132, 143–44
Melancholia, 5, 49–50, 191n100
Melodrama, 5, 45, 118, 188n47
Memorials, 6, 20, 195n163
Memory, 140–41, 174, 188n40; collective, 22, 146; politics of, 7, 21; and justice, 11–12
Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion, 158
Militancy, 40–42
Mills, Charles, 67, 76–78; on Rawls, 76–78
Minow, Martha, 131, 136
Misrecognition, 34, 135, 207n46; and agonism, 43
Morality: democracy and, 159; of the paranoid-schizoid position, 93; tragedy and, 36, 93, 154, 209n76
Moral psychology, theories of, 78–82
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, 38, 40–42
Mourning, xii–xv, 101, 123; politics of, xii, 4–7, 15; Democratic work of, xii, 13, 58, 118, 121–22, 134–35, 159; sociology of, 70–72; and memorialization, 148
Neoliberalism, 133, 139
Norval, Aletta, 139–40
Nuremberg method of accounting for the past, 211n2
Ober, Josiah, 102, 106–7
Object relations psychoanalysis, 13–15, 23–27, 180–81; differences from Freud, 24
Oedipus, 52, 112; Freud on, 208n52
Ogden, Thomas, 61, 96, 192n109, 192n119, 192n120, 218n52
Olson, Joel, 189n54
Omnipotence, 61, 72–74; agency and, 28; as defense, 18, 24, 47, 67; fantasies of, 35; mitigation of, 119
Orestes, 112–18, 208n61; as a figure of mourning, 16
Paranoid schizoid anxieties, social institutions and, 203n117
Paranoid-schizoid defenses, 108. See also Idealization; Omnipotence
Paranoid-schizoid position, 24–32, 45–48, 67–69, 192n119, 193n150
Passions, 25, 28, 63, 75, 111
Pericles, 9–10, 19–22, 71–75
Plato, 67, 72–73
Pluralism, 82–83
Political theory, xiv, 9, 17; and psychoanalysis, 23
Pollution, 210n87
Potential space, 30–31, 102, 117–22
Power, 102, 155–66, 160, 180; inequalities of, 13, 44; relational, 29–30, 101, 135, 180, 205n6
Projection, 88–90, 169, 181–83
Pro-life activists, 41–42
Psychoanalysis, 14, 120. See also Freud, Sigmund; Klein, Melanie; Winnicott, D. W.
Public reason, 84–86
Public work, 16, 189n65, 193n147
Purity, 19, 27, 73, 81–82, 119, 202n83
Race, 76–78, 97–98, 151–53, 166, 168–75; resentment and, 88; stigma and, 67, 97, 195n3
Racial inequality, 169, 199n11
Racial prejudice, 87–88, 205n5
Rankine, Claudia, xii, 162, 172–78
Rawls, John, 67–70, 75–86; moral psychology, 78–85, race and, 76–77
Recognition, 120, 141, 175, 194n159, 194n160; difference and, 205n4; justice and, 7–9; misrecognition and, 213n35; mourning and, xv; race and, 162–66, 175
Reconciliation, 128, 137. See also Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
Reflexive groups, 178–82
Reparation, 25–26, 82; mock reparation, 132–34, 143
Repression, 112
Ricoeur, Paul, 22, 69
Rights. See Civil rights; Human rights
Rogin, Michael, 190n80
Santner, Eric, 197n53
Scapegoats, 44–45, 56, 73–75, 97, 108, 137, 148
Sedgwick, Eve, 28–29, 45–48, 64, 110, 171, 180
Segal, Hanna, 95, 183, 192n107
Self. See Ego
September 11 (terrorist attacks), 50
Shulman, George, 188n45, 203n132
Sit-ins, 3
Social capital, 219n96
Social justice. See Justice
Socrates, 67–68, 72–74, 210n96
Solidarity, 17, 42, 106–7, 119, 180, 197n53
Solms-Delta Winery, 146–49, 182–83
South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, xiii, 103, 126–27, 137–42, 149–50
Sovereignty, 5, 52–54
Stow, Simon, 67–68, 71, 74, 90–92; on funeral orations, 71, 74
Superego, 24, 68, 72–73, 80; Democratic, 69
Taylor, Charles, 194n159, 199n1
Tocqueville, Alexis, xiv
Tragedy. See Greek Tragedy
Transference, 86–89, 120–24
Transitional justice. See Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
Transitional objects, 64–65. See also Potential space
Trauma, 8–12, 18–23, 33–34, 130, 194n156
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, xiii
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, 128–29, 131–50; ambivalence of, 142, 155
Tutu, Desmond, 132, 137–38
Ubuntu, 128, 140
Unity, 101, 137–38
Violence. See Trauma
Volkan, Vamik, 190n72
Vulnerability, 47, 101, 177; anxieties of, 18, 171
War on drugs, 97–98
Whiteness, 90
Wholeness, 26, 69, 134, 199n11
Whole object relations, 47, 60, 92, 152, 157, 210n87
Williams, Bernard 82
Winnicott, D. W., 13, 15, 29–30. See also Potential space
Wolin, Sheldon, 164–66; on liberalism, 204n155
Working through, 189n64
Young, Iris Marion, 9, 137, 153

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