Psychoanalysis and Colonialism: A Contemporary Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780367477660 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 176 str.

Sally Swartz

Opis

Within this important and insightful book, Sally Swartz introduces readers to early entanglements of psychoanalytic theory with colonialism, and how it has led to significant and long-lasting implications for psychoanalysis.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. The Colonial Freud and Jung  3. Anti-colonialism and Psychoanalysis  4. Decolonizing Psychoanalysis  References  Index

O autorze

Sally Swartz is a practising psychoanalytic psychotherapist and Emeritus Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town. She has a particular interest in the fields of colonialism and decolonization in psychoanalytic theory. She is the author of Homeless Wanderers: Movement and Mental Illness in the Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century (2015) and Ruthless Winnicott: The Role of Ruthlessness in Psychoanalysis and Political Protest (2019).