Dark Continents - Psychoanalysis and Colonialism

"Ranjana Khanna articulates and outlines a transnational feminist ethics. Such an ethics is badly needed and awaited with eagerness by many. "Dark Continents" is, indeed, a terrific integration of psychoanalytic thought with postcolonial and feminist politics by way of a critical intimacy with the combined ethics of ambiguity and difference."--Mieke Bal, University of Amsterdam

List of contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Worlding Psychoanalysis 1

Genealogies

1. Psychoanalysis and Archaeology 33

2. Freud in the Sacred Grove 66

Colonial Rescriptings

3. War, Decolonization, Psychoanalysis 99

4. Colonial Melancholy 145

Haunting and the Future

5. The Ethical Ambiguities of Transnational Feminism 207

6. Hamlet in the Colonial Archive 231

Coda: The Lament 269

Notes 275

Index 303

About the author

Ranjana Khanna

Summary

Argues that the psychoanalytic self was constituted through the specifically national-colonial encounters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and that therefore somewhat paradoxically perhaps, psychoanalysis is crucial for understanding postcoloniality and decolonization.

Product details

• Authors: Khanna, Ranjana Khanna, Ranjana Khanna
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2003
• EAN: 9780822330554
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3055-4
• No. of pages: 328
• Weight: 594 g
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)