The transnational unconscious : essays in the history of psychoanalysis and transnationalism / edited by Joy Damousi and Mariano Ben Plotkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Damousi, Joy

Plotkin, Mariano Ben, 1961-

Series:

Palgrave Macmillan transnational history series

The Palgrave Macmillan transnational history series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

xii, 264 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

This collection of essays approaches the history of psychoanalysis from a transnational perspective, emphasizing the flows of people, ideas and institutions across cultures and nations, and examining the factors that contributed to turn psychoanalysis into one of the systems of belief which defined the twentieth century. By examining aspects of this phenomenon across several continents drawing on case studies from Brazil, Argentina. Australia and the Netherlands these essays provide a global and international consideration of the ways in which psychoanalytic ideas were circulated, contested and debated across place and time Moving the history of psychoanalysis beyond the paradigm of national narratives, this exciting new volume considers how ideas about the self, the unconscious and issues of modernity shaped understanding to the relationship between culture and self in distinctive ways.

Contents:

Section 1 Psychoanalysis and Transnational Modernism

1 Three Roads from Vienna: Psychoanalysis, Modernism and Social Welfare / Elizabeth Ann Danto 19

2 Beyond the Blues: Richard wright, Psychoanalysis, and the Modern Idea of Culture / Eti Zaresky 43

Section 2 Psychoanalysis and Transanationl Politics

3 printivity, Animism and Psychoanalysis: European Visions of the Native ‘Soul’ in the Dutch East Indies, 1900-1949 / Frances Gouda 73

4 Fascism Becomes Desize: On Freud, Mussolini and Trasnational Politics / Federico Finchelstein 97

Section 3 The Transnation Diffusion of Psychoanalysis

5 The Travelling Psychoanalyst: Andrew Peto and Transnational Explorations of Psychoanalysis in Bukdapest, Sydney and New York / Joy Damousi 127

6 Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism and National Habitus A Comparative Approach to the Reception of Psychoanalysis In Argentina and Brazil (1910s-1940s) / Marlano Ben Plotkin 145

Section 4 Challenging Centre and Periphery

7 Paris- London-Buenos Aires: The Adventures of Kleinian Psychoanalysis between Europe and south America / Alejandro Dagfal 179

8 The Lacanian Movement in Argentina and Brazil: The Peeiphery Becomes the Center / Jane Russo 199

9 Origin Stories, Invention of Genealogies and the Early Diffusion of Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Argentina and Spain (1960-1980) / Sergio Eduardo Visacovsky 227.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230516779

0230516777

OCLC:

156831812