Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis [[electronic resource] ] : From Uneasy Engagements to Effective Critique / / by Mrinalini Greedharry

• Autore: Greedharry Mrinalini
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2008.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 150.19/5; 150.195
• Soggetto topico: British literature; Literature, Modern—19th century; Psychology; Psycholinguistics; Literature, Modern—20th century; Psychoanalysis; British and Irish Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature; History of Psychology; Twentieth-Century Literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-179) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Of Two Minds: The Uneasy Relationship between Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis; 1 The Fanonian Psychoanalytic; 2 'None of them is true but all of them are realities': Ashis Nandy's Psychology of Resistance; 3 Homi Bhabha and the Psychoanalytic Truth; 4 Anti-dote: Deleuze and Guattari's Critique of Psychoanalysis; 5 Reshaping Postcolonial Relations with Psychoanalysis; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis
• ISBN: 1-281-97603-2; 9786611976033; 0-230-58295-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782737003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II