Black Oedipus

Blindness is a theme that pervades the story of Oedipus and the Oedipus Complex. Anthropologist Rita Segato’s seminal intervention into the fi eld of psychoanalysis shows up its practice’s and theory’s historic blindspots, in relation to race, gender, and class. Drawing on the Brazilian context, Segato writes an at-once personal and scholarly, incisive and accessible testimonial to the erasure of the figure of the Black nanny from the Oedipal triangle. Presented with prefatory materials from Maria Ribeiro and Pascale Molinier, and in a revised translation by Ramsey McGlazer, this is the definitive edition of a classic text in psychoanalysis and anthropology.