Introduction : why turn to psychoanalysis for a social theory of oppression?
Alienation as the perverse privilege of the modern subject
Alienation's double as the burden of the othered subject
Colonial abjection and transmission of affect
Humanism beyond the economy of property
Fluidity of power
The affects of oppression
The depressed sex
Sublimation and idealization
Revolt and singularity
Forgiveness and subjectivity
Conclusion : ethics of psychoanalysis; or, forgiveness as an alternative to alienation.