Unconscious Dominions - Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties - Grand Format

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Warwick Anderson

,

Deborah Jenson

,

Richard C. Keller

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By the 1920s, psychoanalysis was a technology of both the late-colonial state and anti-imperialism. Insights from psychoanalysis shaped European and North... Lire la suite
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Résumé

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 "dark continent" 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 this 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 the essays 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.

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    03/10/2011
  • Editeur
  • ISBN
    978-0-8223-4979-2
  • EAN
    9780822349792
  • Format
    Grand Format
  • Présentation
    Broché
  • Nb. de pages
    314 pages
  • Poids
    0.485 Kg
  • Dimensions
    15,5 cm × 23,4 cm × 2,0 cm

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À propos des auteurs

Warwick Anderson is Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of History and the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney. Deborah Jenson is Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University. Richard C. Keller is Associate Professor of Medical History and the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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