Psychoanalysis and Colonialism

Within this important and insightful book, Sally Swartz introduces readers to early entanglements of psychoanalytic theory with colonialism, and how it has led to significant and long-lasting implications for psychoanalysis.

Auteur

Sally Swartz is a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist and Emeritus Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town. She has a particular interest in the fields of colonialism and decolonization in psychoanalytic theory. She is the author of Homeless Wanderers: Movement and Mental Illness in the Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century (2015) and Ruthless Winnicott: The Role of Ruthlessness in Psychoanalysis and Political Protest (2019).

Contenu

1. Introduction 2. The Colonial Freud and Jung 3. Anti-colonialism and Psychoanalysis 4. Decolonizing Psychoanalysis