ABSTRACT

This essay sets out to read an earlier moment in the history of the encounter between Social Dynamics and apartheid in South Africa. Specifically, it attends to the publication in 1991 on the pages of this journal of J.M. Coetzee’s “The Mind of Apartheid,” a reading of the work of Gregory Cronjé that seeks to tease out distinctly psychoanalytical motifs in an account of apartheid intimately linked to desire and madness. Reading Coetzee to the letter, it attends to his interest in what Cronjé either does not or cannot say, seeking to apprehend in this uneven attention Coetzee’s understanding of the unconscious and, by extension, the role of psychoanalysis in the analysis, critique and transformation of apartheid. Putting such concerns in dialogue with other accounts of what eludes utterance, notably Lawrence Kramer’s concept of “the audiable,” and my own of “the audit,” the essay radicalises the problem of listening and probes the limits of Coetzee’s account of the unconscious as a socio-political phenomenon.

摘要

这篇文章着手阅读社会动力学之间相遇历史上的一个更早时刻和南非的种族隔离。具体而言，它涉及 1991 年 JM Coetzee 的“种族隔离思想”杂志页面上的出版物，这是对 Gregory Cronjé 作品的解读，试图在与欲望密切相关的种族隔离描述中梳理出明显的精神分析主题和疯狂。逐字逐句地阅读库切，关注他对克朗耶没有说或不能说的东西的兴趣，试图在这种不平衡的关注中理解库切对无意识的理解，并推而广之，理解精神分析在分析、批判和转变中的作用种族隔离。将此类担忧与其他关于难以言说的内容进行对话，尤其是劳伦斯·克莱默 (Lawrence Kramer) 的“可听”概念和我自己的“审计”概念，