Dusan I Bjelic

Normalizing the Balkans

Geopolitics of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Normalizing the Balkans argues that, following the historical patterns of colonial psychoanalysis and psychiatry in British India and French Africa as well as Nazi psychoanalysis and psychiatry, the psychoanalysis and psychiatry of the Balkans during the 1990s deployed the language of psychic normality to represent the space of the Other as insane geography and to justify its military, or its symbolic, takeover. Following Gramsci's and Said's discourse-geography? Bjelic transmutes the psychoanalytic topos of the imaginary geography? of the Balkans into the geopolitics inherent in psychoanalytic language itself, and takes to task the practices of normalization that underpin the Balkans' politics of madness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781409433156
• ISBN-10: 1409433153
• Artikelnr.: 45376529

Autorenporträt

Dušan I. Bjelic is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Southern Maine, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Freud and the Balkans
Chapter 2 Freud and the Language of Power
Chapter 3 The Universal Subject and Colonial Geography
Chapter 4 Kristeva's Exile from Balkan Madness
Chapter 5 Slavoj iek: Lacania and the Balkans' Real
Chapter 6 Immigrants as the New Balkans
Chapter 7 Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry, and Insane Geographies
Chapter 8 From "Family Myth" to "Family Resemblances"