Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Theories of Political Consciousness; 1 Conscientization and Individuation; 2 Humanization and Complexes; 3 Decolonization and Narcissism; 4 Liberated Consciousness and the Tension of Opposites; Part II Cases of Liberated Consciousness; 5 The Study of Political Consciousness in Ethnically Divided Societies; 6 Atanasio; 7 James Sewid; 8 Lee Maracle; 9 Rigoberta Menchú; 10 Psychopolitical Healing; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Summary
Explaining changes in the political consciousness of the oppressed using the ideas of Paulo Freire, Albert Memmi, and Jungian psychology, this original book explores how psychological bonds of oppression are broken and offers a psychopolitical theory for the analysis of the autobiographies of four Native people in Guatemala and Canada. Explaining changes in the political consciousness of the oppressed through a psychoanalytical approach, this important book provides insight into how psychological bonds of oppression are broken and offers an integrated framework to the analysis of the autobiographies of four oppressed people in Guatemala and British Columbia
