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Author Rutherford, Jennifer.

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

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 MELB  305.80994 Rut/Gif  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 239 pages ; 23 cm
regular print
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"
Analysis Aggressiveness - Australia
Australia - Politics and government
Australia - Social life and customs
Multiculturalism - Australia
National characteristics, Australian
Psychoanalysis and culture - Australia
Psychoanalysis and racism - Australia
White Australia policy
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography
Subject Aggressiveness -- Australia.
Multiculturalism -- Australia.
National characteristics, Australian.
Psychoanalysis and culture -- Australia.
Psychoanalysis and racism -- Australia.
White Australia policy.
SUBJECT Australia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597
Australia -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315
LC no. 2001430929
ISBN 0522849172
Other Titles Freud, Lacan and the white Australian fantasy