... Minari Asian American childhoods selfobjects true/false self healthy narcissism ...

... Filipinx American Andrew Cunanan Gianni Versace true/false self D. W. Winnicott ...

... concepts from object relations and self psychology such as the true and false self, the good enough mother, selfobjects, and healthy narcissism with the goal of showing how youth forge autonomy in the face of grief, especially from the loss of parents and homespace, as opportunities to rebuild the self...

... in childhood sexual trauma deeply imbricated within race and class. The theorizations of the true and false self and the good and not good enough mother by psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott unpack the trauma of Cunanan’s racialized life and the carnage he left in his wake. Cunanan’s experience of distrust...

... with counterinterpellation, other sources of identity that, while no more “authentic” or true than the false subjectivity he resists, pluralize and complicate (or even anarchize) the kinds of subjectivity and politics that come from the colonial and postcolonial experience. Frantz Fanon identity race...

..., other sources of identity that, while no more “authentic” or true than the false subjectivity he resists, pluralize and complicate (or even anarchize) the kinds of subjectivity and politics that come from the colonial and postcolonial experience. Frantz Fanon identity race postcolonialism...

... the only true agent in the story. Everyone else is following a script, doing what they are told (or interpellated) to do. Bartleby’s famous line “I would prefer not to” is not a form of giving up on life but rather an expression of amor fati , an indication that he follows only his own preferences rather...