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The Doctor and Mrs. A. - Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis (Hardcover)
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The Doctor and Mrs. A. - Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis (Hardcover)
Series: Thinking from Elsewhere
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In the years leading up to India’s independence, a young Punjabi
woman, ill at ease in her marriage and eager for personal and
national freedom, sat down with psychiatrist Dev Satya Nand for an
experiment in his new method of dream analysis. “Mrs A.’s”
analysis included a surge of emotion and reflections on sexuality,
gender, marriage, ambition, trauma, and art. She turned to female
figures from Hindu myth to reimagine her social world and its
ethical arrangements, envisioning a future beyond marriage,
colonial rule, and gendered constraints. This book is an
exploration of their conversation, its window onto gender and
sexuality in late colonial Indian society, and the ways Mrs. A. put
ethics in motion, creating alternatives to ideals of belonging,
recognition, and consciousness. It finds in Mrs. A.’s musings
repertoires for the creative transformation of ideals and explores
the possibilities of thinking with a concept of
“counter-ethics”. Following Mrs. A. in pursuing mythic
narratives, and turning in its conclusion to art as a guide for
theorizing ethics, this book asks what perspectives on gender,
power, meaning, and imagination are possible from the position of
the counter-ethic and its orientation toward movement and change.
General
Imprint: |
Fordham University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Thinking from Elsewhere |
Release date: |
October 2019 |
Authors: |
Sarah Pinto
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth
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Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8232-8667-6 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8232-8667-3 |
Barcode: |
9780823286676 |
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