1st Edition
The Geography of Meanings Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Place, Space, Land, and Dislocation
By Salman Akhtar
Copyright 2007
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is a collection of "stories", and just as the Stories of the Dreaming act as a container of experiences for the indigenous people, it attempts to be a container for experiences that had not had enough exposure in psychoanalytic literature.
Foreword -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Space -- Human space, psychic space, analytic space, geopolitical space -- Place, time, and land -- Unsettling the settler: history, culture, race, and the Australian self -- The Australian patient: traumatic pasts and the work of history -- Lost children -- Coming to terms with the country: some incidents on first meeting Aboriginal locations and Aboriginal thoughts -- Creating mental space: assimilating recovered Maori self-representations -- Dislocation -- The trauma of geographical dislocation: leaving, arriving, mourning, and becoming -- The clinical discovery of time and place -- Epilogue
Biography
Akhtar, Salman
