The Transnational Unconscious: Essays in Psychoanalysis and Transnationalism (Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History)

✍ Scribed by Joy Damousi, Mariano Ben Plotkin

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 277
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Transnational Unconscious examines psychoanalysis as both a national and trans-national phenomenon. It explores the distinctive national and international aspects of the reception and circulation of psychoanalytic thought and practice, psychoanalysis as a cultural paradigm, and both its oppressive and liberatory potential at different historical periods. While focusing on specific national cases, the essays emphasize the transnational aspects of local reception and diffusion of psychoanalysis, in particular the flow of people, ideas, and practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Foreword......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Section 1 Psychoanalysis and Transnational Modernism......Page 30
1 Three Roads from Vienna: Psychoanalysis, Modernism and Social Welfare......Page 32
2 Beyond the Blues: Richard Wright, Psychoanalysis, and the Modern Idea of Culture......Page 56
Section 2 Psychoanalysis and Transnational Politics......Page 84
3 Primitivity, Animism and Psychoanalysis: European Visions of the Native ‘Soul’ in the Dutch East Indies, 1900–1949......Page 86
4 Fascism Becomes Desire: On Freud, Mussolini and Transnational Politics......Page 110
Section 3 The Transnational Diffusion of Psychoanalysis......Page 138
5 The Travelling Psychoanalyst: Andrew Peto and Transnational Explorations of Psychoanalysis in Budapest, Sydney and New York......Page 140
6 Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism and National Habitus: A Comparative Approach to the Reception of Psychoanalysis in Argentina and Brazil (1910s–1940s)......Page 158
Section 4 Challenging Centre and Periphery......Page 190
7 Paris–London–Buenos Aires: The Adventures of Kleinian Psychoanalysis between Europe and South America......Page 192
8 The Lacanian Movement in Argentina and Brazil: The Periphery Becomes the Center......Page 212
9 Origin Stories, Invention of Genealogies and the Early Diffusion of Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Argentina and Spain (1960–1980)......Page 240
A......Page 270
C......Page 271
F......Page 272
I......Page 273
M......Page 274
P......Page 275
S......Page 276
Z......Page 277