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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