Unconscious dominions : psychoanalysis, colonial trauma, and global sovereignties

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Unconscious dominions : psychoanalysis, colonial trauma, and global sovereignties

edited by Warwick Anderson, Deborah Jenson, and Richard C. Keller

Duke University Press, 2011

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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 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

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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. Geza Rohein 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

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