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"The real white man is waiting for me": ideology & morality in Bessie Head's A Question of Power.(Essays)(Critical essay)
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March 22, 2008
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Replacing value with authority, choice with drive, psychoanalysis
offers an Ersatz, a substitute, for morality--the concept of
normality.... The descriptive schema is proposed as a law; and most
assuredly a mechanistic psychology cannot accept the notion of moral
invention; it can in strictness render an account of the less and
never of the more; in strictness it can admit of checks, never of
creations. If a subject does not show in his totality the development
considered as normal, it will be said that his development has been
arrested, and this arrest will be interpreted as a lack, a negation,
but never as a positive decision. (de Beauvoir 1949, 50)
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