Unconscious Dominions (eBook, PDF)

Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties
Redaktion: Warwick Anderson, Anderson

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Produktbeschreibung

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 female sexuality as a "e;dark continent"e; to his conceptualization of primitive societies and the origins of civilization, became inextricable from the ideologies underlying European expansionism. But as it was adapted in the colonies and then the postcolonies, psychoanalysis proved surprisingly useful for theorizing anticolonialism and postcolonial trauma.Our understandings of culture, citizenship, and self have a history that is colonial and psychoanalytic, but, until now, this intersection has scarcely been explored, much less examined in comparative perspective. Taking on that project, Unconscious Dominions assembles essays based on research in Australia, Brazil, France, Haiti, and Indonesia, as well as India, North Africa, and West Africa. Even as they reveal the modern psychoanalytic subject as constitutively colonial, they shed new light on how that subject went global: how people around the world came to recognize the hybrid configuration of unconscious, ego, and superego in themselves and others.ContributorsWarwick AndersonAlice BullardJohn CashJoy DamousiDidier FassinChristiane HartnackDeborah JensonRichard C. KellerRanjana KhannaMariano PlotkinHans Pols

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822393986
• Artikelnr.: 54910637

Autorenporträt

Warwick Anderson, Deborah Jenson, and Richard C. Keller, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Globalizing the Unconscious / Warwick Anderson, Deborah
Jenson, and Richard C. Keller 1
Part I. Ethnohistory, Colonialism, and the Cosmopolitan Psychoanalytic
Subject
1. Sovereignty in Crisis / John D. Cash 21
2. Denial, La Crypte, and Magic: Contributions to the Global Unconscious
from Late Colonial French West African Psychiatry / Alice Bullard 43
3. Géza Róhein and the Australian Aborigine: Psychoanalytic Anthropology
during the Interwar Years / Joy Damousi 75
4. Colonial Dominions with the Psychoanalytic Couch: Synergies of Freudian
Theory with Bengali Hindu Thought and Practices in British India /
Christiane Hartnack 97
5. Psychoanalysis, Race Relations, and National Identity: The Reception of
Psychoanalysis in Brazil, 1910 to 1940 / Mariano Ben Plotkin 113
Part II. Trauma, Subjectivity, Sovereignty: Psychoanalysis and Postcolonial
Critique
6. The Totem Vanishes, the Hordes Revolt: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation
of the Indonesian Struggle for Independence / Hans Pols 141
7. Placing Haiti in Geopsychoanalysis Space: Toward a Postcolonial Concept
of Traumatic Mimesis / Deborah Jensen 167
8. Colonial Madness and the Poetics of Suffering: Structural Violence and
Kateb Yacine / Richard C. Keller 199
9. Ethnopsychiatry and the Postcolonial Encounter: A French Psychopolitics
of Otherness / Didier Fassin 223
Concluding Remarks: Hope, Demand, and the Perpetual / Ranjana Khanna 247
Bibliography 265
Contributors 295
Index 299