Books

Race Talk in the South African Media

“…605 Maré argues that "race thinking, and the practices it gives rise to, have continued since 1994, with hardly a question being raised". 606 According to him, the "ANC government's strategy of using racebased policies to bring about an equal society and economic redress has been unsuccessful, and has criminally detracted us from exploring alternative and much more widely inclusive ways of tackling our problems". Maré argues that these policies have instead "entrenched even further a racialized understanding of who we are as South Africans …" Maré continues: … the constant repeated phrase "the legacies of apartheid" stand in the way of addressing imaginatively, innovatively, realistically, the enormous challenges of the present … The dominant political mindset is allowed to find refuge in the past.…”

The Median Group and Psychiatry: Reclaiming the Mind

“…These opportunities and actions are generated by the mind, which ipso facto create a natural, healthy narcissism that constitutes the basic necessity for living and engenders a sense of meaning. 3 The single mind becomes conscious in the meeting of other minds, consciousness arising because what is conscious to me may be unconscious to you. In this way, culture is established which is extensively unconscious to the single mind: we are not fully aware of the culture we live in and to which we have given a personal contribution, that is, the tribal structure of the family we should emancipate ourselves from is already deep in ourselves, in how we think, perceive ourselves and others, in our social relationships and society (it could not be otherwise, could it?…”