Unconscious dominions : psychoanalysis, colonial trauma, and global sovereignties.
By the 1920s, psychoanalysis was a technology of both the late-colonial state and anti-imperialism. Insights from psychoanalysis shaped European and North American ideas about the colonial world and the character and potential of native cultures. Psychoanalytic discourse, from Freud’s description of...
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Durham :
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2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Sovereignty in crisis / John D. Cash
- Denial, la crypte, and magic : contributions to the global unconscious from late colonial French West African psychiatry / Alice Bullard
- Géza Roheim and the Australian Aborigine : psychoanalytic anthropology during the interwar years / Joy Damousi
- Colonial dominions and the psychoanalytic couch : synergies of Freudian theory with Bengali Hindu thought and practices in British India / Christiane Hartnack
- Psychoanalysis, race relations, and national Identity : the reception of psychoanalysis in Brazil, 1910 to 1940 / Mariano Ben Plotkin
- The totem vanishes, the hordes revolt : a psychoanalytic interpretation of the Indonesian struggle for independence / Hans Pols
- Placing Haiti in geopsychoanalytic space : toward a postcolonial concept of traumatic mimesis / Deborah Jenson
- Colonial madness and the poetics of suffering : structural violence and Kateb Yacine / Richard C. Keller
- Ethnopsychiatry and the postcolonial encounter : a French psychopolitics of otherness / Didier Fassin.