Acoustic hallucinations and racial disparities : a psychoanalytic lacanian reading of Joe Penhall's blue orange (2000)
Author
Khalil, Raniya Muhammad Rafiq Abd al-Fattah
Source
Menoufia University, Faculty of Arts Journal
Issue
Vol. 33, Issue 130، ج. 1 (31 Jul. 2022), pp.697-718, 22 p.
Publisher
University of Menoufiya Faculty of Arts
Publication Date
2022-07-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
22
Main Subjects
English Language and Literature
Topics
Abstract EN
Schizophrenia is a disease that has a powerful stigma, particularly in ethnic communities in the UK.
Statistics show as reported by Morgan et al (2005) that Black individuals and ethnic minorities in the UK have a greater propensity of being diagnosed with mental illness.
Professor Jonathan M.
Metzl (2009), explains that medical psychiatry came to view schizophrenia as a disease rampant mostly amongst Black men.
This paper, through a psychoanalytic Lacanian reading, examines the acoustic hallucination representations in Joe Penhall's Blue Orange (2000) and argues that Christopher's African-Caribbean ethnicity represents the debatable connection between racism and psychosis.
The study further argues that Penhall's play is not about schizophrenia, but an open criticism of Britain's Mental Health Policies and a mirror stage of the racial disparities in today's multicultural climate in the UK.
The paper concludes that poverty and socioeconomic disadvantages are the true symptoms of schizophrenia and hence, the psychotic patient is a multiple being.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Khalil, Raniya Muhammad Rafiq Abd al-Fattah. 2022. Acoustic hallucinations and racial disparities : a psychoanalytic lacanian reading of Joe Penhall's blue orange (2000). Menoufia University, Faculty of Arts Journal،Vol. 33, no. 130، ج. 1, pp.697-718.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1445008
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Khalil, Raniya Muhammad Rafiq Abd al-Fattah. Acoustic hallucinations and racial disparities : a psychoanalytic lacanian reading of Joe Penhall's blue orange (2000). Menoufia University, Faculty of Arts Journal Vol. 33, no. 130, p. 1 (2022), pp.697-718.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1445008
American Medical Association (AMA)
Khalil, Raniya Muhammad Rafiq Abd al-Fattah. Acoustic hallucinations and racial disparities : a psychoanalytic lacanian reading of Joe Penhall's blue orange (2000). Menoufia University, Faculty of Arts Journal. 2022. Vol. 33, no. 130، ج. 1, pp.697-718.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1445008
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 716-718
Record ID
BIM-1445008