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Grimaces Of The Real By Tony Brown

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Tony C. Brown’s psychoanalytic article on Cultural Psychosis relates Marlow’s experience to a subversive way of thinking that comes from social attitudes and cultural ignorance. Brown defines psychosis at the beginning of the article with a quote from Slovoj Žižek’s “Grimaces of the Real”, “Therein consists the most elementary formal definition of psychosis; the massive presence of some real that fills out and blocks the perspective openness which is constitutive of “reality”” (350). Brown’s argument is that when placing a European, who has been influenced by cultural psychosis, into a setting that is foreign to them, such as Colonial Africa, he loses any sense of social norms that were deeply ingrained in the psyche of Europeans. However,

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