Unconscious dominions : psychoanalysis, colonial trauma, and global sovereignties / edited by Warwick Anderson, Deborah Jenson, and Richard C. Keller.

Date:
2011
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Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.

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vi, 314 pages ; 25 cm

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 Róheim 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  • 9780822349648
  • 0822349647
  • 9780822349792
  • 0822349795