Marilyn Nissim-Sabat is professor emeritus of philosophy at Lewis University.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 Chapter 1: What is a Victim?Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Freud, Gender, and the Epigenesis of Morality: A CritiqueChapter 5 Chapter 3: The Crisis in Psychoanalysis: Resolution Through Husserlian Phenomenology and FeminismChapter 6 Chapter 4: Addictions, Akrasia, and Self Psychology: A Socratic and Psychoanalytic View of Akrasia as Victim Blaming.Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Fanon, Phenomenology, And the Decentering Of Philosophy: Lewis Gordon's Her Majesty's Other Children: Sketches of Racism From a Neocolonial AgeChapter 8 Chapter 6: Race And Culture: Victim Blaming in Psychology, Psychiatry, and PsychoanalysisChapter 9 Chapter 7: Autonomy, Empathy, and Transcendence in Sophocles' Antigone, with an Epilogue: On Lacan's AntigoneChapter 10 Chapter 8: Neither Victim Nor Survivor Be: Who Is Beloved's Baby?

With compassion and rigor, Marilyn Nissim-Sabat offers unprecedented insight into victim blaming. By intervening in postmodern philosophical trends and inaugurating a paradigm shift in psychoanalytic theory, she shows that even liberal theoreticians, clinicians, and activists confine the victims of history to mere survival and undermine the humanistic and transcendental ideal of human flourishing. This book is a must-read for philosophers, psychoanalysts and therapists, feminists and critical race theorists.