On Migration and Fantasy

ISBN-13: 9783845405254 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 56 str.

Szilvia Simai;Rosana Baeninger

Opis

Migration itself contains the notion of the unknown, and this opens up space for human imagination, for fantasy. This book explores some aspects of how foreigners create an imaginary of Brazilian immigrants and how immigrants themselves reinforce these imaginaries through re-fantasized identities. It will also look at the case of Brazilian self-fantasies in Brazil and their verbalized fantasies of foreigners in Brazil. The book frames the notion of fantasy in the context of the Freudian school and that of Slavoj Žižek.

O autorze

Szilvia Simai, Ph.D.:Studied Social Psychology at the University of London. Currently she is a FAPESP postdoctoral fellow at the University of Campinas, Brazil.Rosana Baeninger, Ph.D.:Studied Social Sciences at the University of Campinas in Brazil where she is a lecturer in Demography.