The transnational unconscious Essays in the history of psychoanalysis and transnationalism /

This collection of essays approaches the history of psychoanalysis from a transnational perspective, emphasizing the flows of people, ideas and institution across cultures and nations, and examining the factors that contributed to turn psychoanalysis into one of the systems of beliefs that defined t...

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Group Author: Damousi, Joy.; Plotkin, Mariano Ben.; Iriye, Akira.; Mitter, Rana.
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: The Palgrave Macmillan transnational history series
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230582705
Summary: This collection of essays approaches the history of psychoanalysis from a transnational perspective, emphasizing the flows of people, ideas and institution across cultures and nations, and examining the factors that contributed to turn psychoanalysis into one of the systems of beliefs that defined the Twentieth century.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2008.
Carrier Form: 280 p.
ISBN: 9780230516779
9780230582705 :
0230582702 :
CLC: R749
Contents: Introduction-- J.Damousi and M.Plotkin PART I: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TRANSNATIONAL MODERNISM Three Roads from Vienna: Psychoanalysis, Modernism and Social Welfare-- E.A.Danto Beyond the Blues: Richard Wright, Psychoanalysis, and the Modern Idea of Culture-- E.Zarestsky PART II: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS Primitivity, Animism and Psychoanalysis: European visions of the Native 'Soul' in the Dutch East Indies, 1900-1949-- F.Gouda Fascism Becomes Desire: On Freud, Mussolini and Transnational Politics-- F.Finchelstein PART III: THE TRANSNATIONAL DIFFUSION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS The Travelling Psychoanalyst: Andrew Peto and Transnational Explorations of Psychoanalysis in Budapest, Sydney and New York-- J.Damousi Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism and National Habitus: A Comparative Approach to the Reception of Psychoanalysis in Argentina and Brazil' (1910s-1940s)-- M.B.Plotkin PART IV: CHALLENGING CENTRE AND PERIPHERY Paris-London-Buenos Aires: the Adventures of Kleinian Psychoanalysis between Europe and South America-- A.Dagfal The Lacanian movement in Argentina and Brazil: the periphery becomes the center-- J.Russo Origin stories, invention of genealogies and the early diffusion of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Argentina and Spain (1960-1980)-- S.Visacovsky.