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Acoustic Hallucinations and Racial Disparities: A Psychoanalytic Lacanian Reading of Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange (2000)

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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اللغة الإنجليزية وآدابها

Abstract

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.

DOI

10.21608/sjam.2022.124771.1475

Keywords

Schizophrenia, Psychoanalysis, British Drama, Urban alienation, Black Psychosis

Authors

First Name

Rania

Last Name

Mohamed Rafik Abdel Fattah Khalil

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Affiliation

Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, The British University in Egypt

Email

rania.khalil@bue.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-2096-1904

Volume

33

Article Issue

130.1

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32113

Issue Date

2022-07-01

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2022-03-01

Publish Date

2022-07-01

Page Start

697

Page End

718

Print ISSN

2090-2956

Online ISSN

2735-329X

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https://sjam.journals.ekb.eg/article_223802.html

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244

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المقالة الأصلية

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1,337

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Journal

Publication Title

مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية

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https://sjam.journals.ekb.eg/

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Acoustic Hallucinations and Racial Disparities: A Psychoanalytic Lacanian Reading of Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange (2000)

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26 Dec 2024