Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis: From Uneasy Engagements to Effective Critique
Psychoanalytic 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.
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Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis: From Uneasy Engagements to Effective Critique
Psychoanalytic 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.
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Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis: From Uneasy Engagements to Effective Critique

Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis: From Uneasy Engagements to Effective Critique

by Mrinalini Greedharry
Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis: From Uneasy Engagements to Effective Critique

Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis: From Uneasy Engagements to Effective Critique

by Mrinalini Greedharry

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Psychoanalytic 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230521636
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 04/30/2008
Edition description: 2008
Pages: 182
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Of Two Minds: The Uneasy Relationship between Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis The Fanonian Psychoanalytic 'None of them is true but all of them are realities': Ashis Nandy's Psychoanalytic Reading of Colonialism Homi Bhabha and the Psychoanalytic Truth Anti-dote -Deleuze and Guattari's Critique of Psychoanalysis Reshaping Postcolonial Relations with Psychoanalysis Index
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