Psychoanalytic Georgraphies

Psychoanalytic Geographies is a unique, path-breaking volume and a core text for anyone seeking to grasp how psychoanalysis helps us understand fundamental geographical questions, and how geographical understandings can offer new ways of thinking psychoanalytically. Elaborating on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches that embrace geographical imaginations and a commitment toward spatial thinking, this book demonstrates the breadth, depth, and vitality of cutting edge work in psychoanalytic geographies and presents readers with as wide a set of options as possible for taking psychoanalysis forward in their own work. It covers a wide range of themes and perspectives in terms of theoretical approaches such as Freudian, Lacanian, Kristevan, and Irigarayian; conceptual issues such as space, power, identity, culture, political economy, colonialism, ethics, and aesthetics; disciplinary insights including Geography, English, Sexuality Studies, and History of Science; as well as empirical contexts such as the reception of psychoanalysis in early twentieth century England, psychoanalytic geographies of violence and creativity in a small Mexican city, visual cultures of second-generation Iranian artists living in Los Angeles, and the hysterical underpinnings of climate change scepticism. Cover 1 Contents 6 List of Figures 10 Notes on Contributors 12 Preface 18 Introduction 26 I Histories and Practices 64 1 Freud in the Field 66 2 On Freud’s Geographies 82 3 Consulting Rooms: Notes Towards a Historical Geography of the Psychoanalytic Setting 98 4 “Worlding” Psychoanalytic Insights: Unpicking R.D. Laing’s Geographies 114 5 Mapping Trauma: Topography to Topology 128 II Psychic Life and its Spaces 142 6 Geographies of Psychic Life 144 7 A Distributed Unconscious 160 8 “Or does it explode?” Psychoanalytic Geographies of Violence and Creativity 174 9 “Tehrangeles,” CA: The Aesthetics of Shame 190 10 Psychoanalysis and the Geography of the Anthropocene 206 III The Technologies of Becoming a Subject 222 11 When 1+1 Does Not Equal 2: Childhood Sexuality and Laplanche’s Enigmatic Signifier 224 12 Towards a Psychoanalytic Geopolitics: The Militarization of Public Schooling in the USA 238 13 “Welcome Home our Military Sisters”:Sexual Difference and Female Veterans with PTSD 252 14 Periscope Down! Charting Masculine Sexuation in Submarine Films 266 IV Social Life and its Discontents 282 15 “Race,” Imperializing Geographies of the Machine, and Psychoanalysis 284 16 A Small Narrow Space: Postcolonial Territorialization and the Libidinal Economy 304 17 The Uncanny in the Beauty Salon 320 18 What Does it Mean for Young Women to get Drunk? 332 19 Gender, Sexuality, and Race in the Lacanian Mirror: Urinary Segregation and the Bodily Ego 348 Index 364 First Mooted In 1917, The Scottish National War Memorial Was Opened By Edward, Prince Of Wales, On 14th July 1927. Paid For By Public Subscription, This Remarkable Architectural And Artistic Achievement Articulated A Nation’s Grief. Designed By Sir Robert Lorimer, Who Led A Team Of Artists And Craftsmen, It Is One Of The Most Ambitious And Successful Pieces Of Public Art Of It Is Time. Intended To Make The Memorial Accessible To A Wide Audience, This Unique And Beautiful Publication Will Give An Account Of Its Fascinating History. The Memorial's Many Different Art Works Include Sculpture In Bronze, Wood And Stone And Outstanding Stained Glass. Highly Accomplished, Each Element Of The Memorial's Design Reflects How This Is A Monument To Peace Not Just To War. Tracing The Memorial's Eventful History From Its Genesis Through To Its Construction And Its Eventual Opening, Duncan Macmillan Discusses All Aspects Of The Memorial From Its Design To The Individual Artists That Contributed To Its Creation. Including Contextual Links To Other Similar Projects, This Publication Will Provide The Definitive Account Of This Significant Public Monument, Which Continues To Commemorate Scottish Casualities Of War.