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The recent institutional consolidation of feminist philosophy, African and Africana philosophies, sociology of knowledge and decolonial theory have brought professional philosophers face-to-face with the repressed side of Western philosophy. This essay, drawing on the theoretical framework developed in my previous article ‘Hic sunt leones’, investigates the role played by professional narcissism and resistance to history in the philosopher’s self-image and imaginary, with a particular focus on professional white philosophy in South Africa. The pedagogical aspects of philosophical apprenticeship will be examined psychoanalytically, and explored in their transferential components. Such a psychoanalytic reading will also engage with current conflicts within the South African philosophical field, promoting a shared space for negotiations. However, without adequate introjection of, and progressive identification with, African philosophers and their work, professional white philosophers in South Africa run the twofold risk of replicating regressive forms of disciplinary parenthood while institutionalising neocolonial forms of academic (af)filiations.
最近,女性主义哲学、非洲和非洲哲学、知识社会学和非殖民化理论在制度上的巩固,使专业哲学家们与西方哲学被压抑的一面面对面。这篇文章,借鉴了我在之前的文章“hi sunt leones”中发展的理论框架,调查了职业自恋和对历史的抵制在哲学家的自我形象和想象中所起的作用,特别关注南非的职业白人哲学。哲学学徒的教学方面将进行精神分析,并在其转移成分中进行探索。这样的精神分析阅读也将参与当前南非哲学领域的冲突,促进一个共享的谈判空间。然而,如果没有对非洲哲学家和他们的工作的充分的内省和进步的认同,南非的专业白人哲学家就会面临双重风险,即在将新殖民主义形式的学术联系制度化的同时,复制倒退形式的纪律父母。