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RST2601 Assignment (02):Semester 02, YEAR 2022
This assignment is based on SECTION A: OBJECTS. It
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, 1. Fetish (1000 words; 30 marks)
The purpose of this part of Assignment 02 is to determine whether you have achieved the
outcomes of study unit 2.
Although the notion of the “fetish” should be problematized due to its use under colonialism,
Chidester holds that it might still be used productively for analytical purposes.
1.1 Write a brief essay in which you show why the concept is problematic due to its use under
colonialism (ca 500 words; 15 marks).
Postcolonial theory’s engagement with the questions of psychoanalysis are beginning to reveal
colonial paradigms within both the theory of psychoanalysis and the practice of its treatments. It is
not surprising that a methodology for reaching some personal understanding of the western
condition of alienation and trauma should reveal aspects of western knowledges as dependent upon
past practices of colonial dispossession and destruction of non-western peoples and lives. What is
surprising is to find the extent to which early modern western anxieties regarding the ethical
treatment of non-western peoples should remain fixed within various languages in which present
forms of colonialism continue to reap their harvests of life and death for western treasuries.
Postcolonial theory’s engagement with the questions of psychoanalysis are beginning to reveal
colonial paradigms within both the theory of psychoanalysis and the practice of its treatments. It is
not surprising that a methodology for reaching some personal understanding of the western
condition of alienation and trauma should reveal aspects of western knowledges as dependent upon
past practices of colonial dispossession and destruction of non-western peoples and lives. What is
surprising is to find the extent to which early modern western anxieties regarding the ethical
treatment of non-western peoples should remain fixed within various languages in which present
forms of colonialism continue to reap their harvests of life and death for western treasuries. The
conjunction of postcolonial theory’s questions of race, discursive power and identity with Freudian
and Lacanian methods of theorising the unconscious as if it were a language has intensified how
sexuality might function in relation to racial subjectification, and how racial differences appear
always as an Imaginary within Western hegemony and its effects.
Masculinity and whiteness mask the Godly spark by which western speech users imagine the path
home to spiritual understanding has been laid out within the western literary archive. These
questions are beyond the scope of this article. My aim is to introduce questions of legal aesthetics
and legal history to the conjunction of postcolonial theory and psychoanalytic method which has
appeared in recent revisitings of the problematic of ‘fetishism’. Homi Bhabha has interrogated the
Freudian theorisation of the fetish as a sexual phenomenon, and its wider ambit as a process of
ambivalence, disavowal and affirmation implied in the practices of colonialism. William Pietz has
carried out a genealogy of the term fetish and revealed its early uses in the ambivalences of and
contradictions between early modern European Christian and commercial practices in Africa and the
similar ambivalences and contradictions of African cultures during these beginnings of European
colonisation of African peoples and resources.
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