Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis: From Uneasy Engagements to Effective CritiquePsychoanalytic theory has been the critical instrument of choice for colonial critics. This book examines why critics who are otherwise suspicious of Western forms of knowledge are drawn to psychoanalytic theories, and whether it is possible to use such theories without reproducing the colonial discourse that also structures psychoanalytic thought. |
Contents
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1 The Fanonian Psychoanalytic | 15 |
Ashis Nandys Psychology of Resistance | 44 |
3 Homi Bhabha and the Psychoanalytic Truth | 73 |
Deleuze and Guattaris Critique of Psychoanalysis | 105 |
5 Reshaping Postcolonial Relations with Psychoanalysis | 135 |
Notes | 159 |
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