Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis : From Uneasy Engagements to Effective Critique / by Mrinalini Greedharry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greedharry, Mrinalini, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature.

Literature, Modern--19th century.

Literature, Modern.

Psychology.

Social sciences--History.

Social sciences.

Psycholinguistics.

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Psychoanalysis.

European Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

History of Psychology.

Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Local Subjects:

European Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

History of Psychology.

Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2008.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Psychoanalytic theory has been the critical instrument of choice for colonial critics. This book examines why critics who are otherwise suspicious of Western forms of knowledge are drawn to psychoanalytic theories, and whether it is possible to use such theories without reproducing the colonial discourse that also structures psychoanalytic thought.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Of Two Minds: The Uneasy Relationship between Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis; 1 The Fanonian Psychoanalytic; 2 'None of them is true but all of them are realities': Ashis Nandy's Psychology of Resistance; 3 Homi Bhabha and the Psychoanalytic Truth; 4 Anti-dote: Deleuze and Guattari's Critique of Psychoanalysis; 5 Reshaping Postcolonial Relations with Psychoanalysis; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-179) and index.

ISBN:

9786611976033

9781281976031

1281976032

9780230582958

0230582958

OCLC:

314769645