Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography

✍ Scribed by Jadran Mimica (editor)

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 intersubjective (social) reality of any given cultural life-world is a vital domain of anthropological and sociological inquiry and understanding.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography
Chapter 1 CULTURE AND PSYCHOANALYSIS A Personal Journey
Chapter 2 ASPECTS OF THE NAVEN RITUAL Conversations with an Iatmul Woman of Papua New Guinea
Chapter 3 DESCENDED FROM THE CELESTIAL ROPE From the Father to the Son, and from the Ego to the Cosmic Self
Chapter 4 TO DREAM, PERCHANCE TO CURE Dreaming and Shamanism in a Brazilian Indigenous Society
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 A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into the Production of Moral Conscience
Chapter 9 INTERPRETING NUMINOUS EXPERIENCES
Chapter 10 THE RELIGION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, OR ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE
SUBJECT INDEX
NAMES INDEX