The Geography of Meanings: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Place, Space, Land, and Dislocation (Psychology, Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy)

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. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents THE INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS LIBRARY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS FOREWORD Prologue Introduction I Space 1 Human space, psychic space, analytic space, geopolitical space II Place, time, and land 2 Unsettling the settler: history, culture, race, and the Australian self 3 The Australian patient: traumatic pasts and the work of history 4 Lost children 5 Coming to terms with the country: some incidents on first meeting Aboriginal locations and Aboriginal thoughts 6 Creating mental space: assimilating recovered Maori self-representations III Dislocation 7 The trauma of geographical dislocation: leaving, arriving, mourning, and becoming 8 The clinical discovery of time and place Epilogue REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX