Unconscious Dominions

Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties

Warwick Anderson, Deborah Jenson, Richard C. Keller (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2011
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-4979-2 (ISBN)

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Comparative case studies reveal the multiple relations between psychoanalysis and globalization, showing how imperial ideologies were incorporated into early psychoanalytic theory, and how psychoanalysis has been reconfigured to critique imperialism.

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 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.

Contributors
Warwick Anderson
Alice Bullard
John Cash
Joy Damousi
Didier Fassin
Christiane Hartnack
Deborah Jenson
Richard C. Keller
Ranjana Khanna
Mariano Plotkin
Hans Pols

Warwick Anderson is a research professor in the Department of History and the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney, and a professorial fellow in the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines and The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia, both also published by Duke University Press. Deborah Jenson is Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Beyond the Slave Narrative: Politics, Sex, and Manuscripts in the Haitian Revolution and Trauma and Its Representations. Richard C. Keller is Associate Professor of Medical History and the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa.

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

Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
ISBN-10	0-8223-4979-5 / 0822349795
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-4979-2 / 9780822349792
Zustand	Neuware