The Doctor and Mrs. A. - Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis (Hardcover)

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
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Thinking from Elsewhere
Release date:	October 2019
Authors:	Sarah Pinto
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-8232-8667-6
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-8232-8667-3
Barcode:	9780823286676

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