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Reverberating Disquietude: A response to Shalini Masih’s “A Sustained Note of Disquiet”

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This discussion is a response to a paper concerning the oppression of the Christian religious minority community in present-day India. I explore several themes presented by Masih through a psychoanalytic consideration of individual experience, marginalization, theories of prejudice, individual and social trauma, post-colonial critiques, and intersectionality. Links are made between the trauma of colonialism and the present day persecution of Christians in India.

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Rao, J.M. Reverberating Disquietude: A response to Shalini Masih’s “A Sustained Note of Disquiet”. Psychoanal Cult Soc 25, 263–270 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-020-00171-8

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