Frederick Douglass, a Psychobiography

Danjuma Gibson is Associate Professor of Pastoral Care at Calvin Theological Seminary, USA.

1. Introduction.- 2. The Intersubjective-Matrix of the Slavocracy: Experiencing the World of Frederick Douglass.- 3. Reimagining Black Subjectivity: A Psychoanalysis of Frederick Douglass.- 4. A New Birth: Agency Over Body and Sacred Spaces of Play.- 5. The Force of Being, Life-Stories, and the Counter-Narrative: A Brief Comment on Cultural Trauma and Resiliency in Personal Testimony.- 6. A Constructive Theology of Deliverance: Redeeming the Internal Force of Being.- 7. Remembering, Lament, and Public Ritual: Redeeming the Democratic Experiment.