Explorations in psychoanalytic ethnography / edited by Jadran Mimica.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mimica, Jadran, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnopsychology.

Cognition and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different approach: its concerns are the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psycho-analytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically framed ethnographic project. In fact, some contributors here argue that the anthropological interpretation of human existence is not sustainable without psychoanalysis; others take a less extreme radical stance but still maintain that the unconscious matrix of the human psyche and of the inters

Contents:

Title Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Culture and Psychoanalysis; Chapter 2 Aspects of the Naven Ritual; Chapter 3 Descended from the Celestial Rope; Chapter 4 To Dream, Perchance to Cure; Chapter 5 A Psychoanalytic Revisiting of Fieldwork and Intercultural Borderlinking; Chapter 6 On Tjukurrpa, Painting Up, and Building Thought; Chapter 7 A Cartography of Mental Health; Chapter 8 Psychotic Group Text; Chapter 9 Interpreting Numinous Experiences; Chapter 10 The Religion of Psychoanalysis, or Ode to a Nightingale; Indexes

Notes:

Originally published as a special issue of Social analysis (volume 50, issue 2, summer 2006).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780857456946

0857456946