20 October 2021
13:00 - 14:00
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Rage
People in the world have every reason to be in a state of total rage. What we do with that rage together is important. Rage can be crafted—it's sort of an art form of politics (Butler, New Yorker, 2020).
Why is it that our current time is referred to as “the age of rage"? Why is it that so many very different feminist scholars (Butler, Nussbaum, Rose among others) are writing about rage, claiming also that “feminists are raging"? What are South Africans specifically so enraged about? To what extent is this rage gendered and raced and classed? In this paper I will address some of these questions by looking at South African rage from a psychological perspective, trying to unpack the nature of rage, the causes of rage and the impact of rage in our particular context. I want to explore how rage, when recognized, understood, and managed can become an energizing and constructive force, rather than a destructive one. I will do this by looking at the recent literature, but also by discussing some clinical vignettes
Bio
Professor Lou-Marié Kruger obtained a M.Soc.Sci. (Political Studies) from the University of Cape Town (1989) and a M.A. and Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology) from Boston University (1996). She completed an American Psychological Association accredited internship for Clinical Psychology at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School in 1996. She was a runner-up for the national award, Distinguished Women Researcher in 2016, she was also awarded a B-2 rating by the NRF in 2017. She is currently Professor and Chair of the department at the Department of Psychology of Stellenbosch University. In her research, she focuses on the emotional worlds of low-income South African mothers, utilising mainly psychoanalytic, feminist and postmodern theoretical frameworks. Kruger has also had a small part-time private practice in Stellenbosch for more than 20 years.
