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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809102403321

Titolo

Explorations in psychoanalytic ethnography / / edited by Jadran Mimica

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

0-85745-694-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

155.8

Soggetti

Ethnopsychology

Cognition and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published as a special issue of Social analysis (volume 50, issue 2, summer 2006).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1  Culture and Psychoanalysis; Chapter 2  Aspects of the Naven Ritual; Chapter 3  Descended from the Celestial Rope; Chapter 4  To Dream, Perchance to Cure; Chapter 5  A Psychoanalytic Revisiting of Fieldwork and Intercultural Borderlinking; Chapter 6  On Tjukurrpa, Painting Up, and Building Thought; Chapter 7  A Cartography of Mental Health; Chapter 8  Psychotic Group Text; Chapter 9  Interpreting Numinous Experiences; Chapter 10  The Religion of Psychoanalysis, or Ode to a Nightingale; Indexes

Sommario/riassunto

Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different approach: its concerns are the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psycho-analytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically framed ethnographic project. In fact, some contributors here argue that the anthropological interpretation of human existence is not sustainable without psychoanalysis; others take a less extreme radical stance but still maintain that the unconscious matrix of the human psyche and of the inters