Sheldon George and Derek Hook (eds), Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity, and Psychoanalytic Theory.

Allow me one more conceptual riff to underline this unthought dimension of psychoanalysis: Lacan's concept of the "inter-dit" (1998, p. 119) - a pun on betweenness, diction and prohibition - can help locate blackness as an "impossible knowledge" (1998, p. 119) that persists inter-dicted and goes "unsaid [but nevertheless] dwells in the holes of discourse" (2006, p. 253) where it "doesn't stop [...] being written" (1998, p. 59) as that which is I desired to not be desired i . This radically Other world is, moreover, the "socio-Symbolic matrix of laws and social ideals" (George and Hook, p. 47) that constitutively transfix - through fantasy - our unconscious desire upon the enigmatic "thing" that the Other supposedly lacks and hence desires. And it is precisely this thesis that, Seshadri suggests, the contributors to I Lacan and Race i thoroughly affirm. As the contributors to I Lacan and Race i variously outline, race is a psychic reality that mediates both social relations and access to a sense of being through and against bodily flesh. [Extracted from the article]