Dark Continents : Psychoanalysis and Colonialism, Hardcover by Khanna, Ranjan...

by Ranjana Khanna

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Dark Continents : Psychoanalysis and Colonialism, Hardcover by Khanna, Ranjana; Fish, Stanley Eugene (EDT); Jameson, Fredric (EDT), ISBN 0822330555, ISBN-13 9780822330554, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a &;dark continent&; for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanley&;s use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While the problematic universalism of psychoanalysis led theorists to reject its relevance for postcolonial critique, Ranjana Khanna boldly shows how bringing psychoanalysis, colonialism, and women together can become the starting point of a postcolonial feminist theory. Psychoanalysis brings to light, Khanna argues, how nation-statehood for the former colonies of Europe institutes the violence of European imperialist history. Far from rejecting psychoanalysis, Dark Continents reveals its importance as a reading practice that makes visible the psychical strife of colonial and postcolonial modernity. Assessing the merits of various models of nationalism, psychoanalysis, and colonialism, it refashions colonial melancholy as a transnational feminist ethics. Khanna traces the colonial backgrounds of psychoanalysis from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century up to the present. Illuminating Freud&;s debt to the languages of archaeology and anthropology throughout his career, Khanna describes how Freud altered his theories of the ego as his own political status shifted from Hab

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Year: 2003
• ISBN: 9780822330554
• Condition: Fine

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