The Potential of Paradox in States of Exile: Discussion of “States of Exile and Marginalization”

Garth Stevens, M.Psych., D.Litt. et Phil., is a Professor and Clinical Psychologist in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. His teaching and research interests include the intersection of culture and psychoanalysis; socially applied psychoanalysis in the areas of race, class, gender, and violence; affect theory; and psychoanalysis and embodiment. He has published widely, both nationally and internationally, in textbooks, specialist readers, and journals, including as coeditor of A Race Against Time (UNISA Press) and Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive: Towards a Transformative Psychosocial Praxis (Palgrave Macmillan). He currently also practices as a psychotherapist, is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, and serves as the Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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