The Transnational Unconscious: Essays in the History of Psychoanalysis and Transnationalism (Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series)

Transnational Unconscious examines psychoanalysis as both a national and trans-national phenomenon. It explores the distinctive national and international aspects of the reception and circulation of psychoanalytic thought and practice, psychoanalysis as a cultural paradigm, and both its oppressive and liberatory potential at different historical periods. While focusing on specific national cases, the essays emphasize the transnational aspects of local reception and diffusion of psychoanalysis, in particular the flow of people, ideas, and practice. Contents......Page 6 Notes on Contributors......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 11 Foreword......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 Section 1 Psychoanalysis and Transnational Modernism......Page 30 1 Three Roads from Vienna: Psychoanalysis, Modernism and Social Welfare......Page 32 2 Beyond the Blues: Richard Wright, Psychoanalysis, and the Modern Idea of Culture......Page 56 Section 2 Psychoanalysis and Transnational Politics......Page 84 3 Primitivity, Animism and Psychoanalysis: European Visions of the Native ‘Soul’ in the Dutch East Indies, 1900–1949......Page 86 4 Fascism Becomes Desire: On Freud, Mussolini and Transnational Politics......Page 110 Section 3 The Transnational Diffusion of Psychoanalysis......Page 138 5 The Travelling Psychoanalyst: Andrew Peto and Transnational Explorations of Psychoanalysis in Budapest, Sydney and New York......Page 140 6 Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism and National Habitus: A Comparative Approach to the Reception of Psychoanalysis in Argentina and Brazil (1910s–1940s)......Page 158 Section 4 Challenging Centre and Periphery......Page 190 7 Paris–London–Buenos Aires: The Adventures of Kleinian Psychoanalysis between Europe and South America......Page 192 8 The Lacanian Movement in Argentina and Brazil: The Periphery Becomes the Center......Page 212 9 Origin Stories, Invention of Genealogies and the Early Diffusion of Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Argentina and Spain (1960–1980)......Page 240 A......Page 270 C......Page 271 F......Page 272 I......Page 273 M......Page 274 P......Page 275 S......Page 276 Z......Page 277 Introduction Psychoanalysis and transnational modernism 'Three roads from Vienna : psychoanalysis, modernism, and social welfare' / Elizabeth Ann Danto 'Beyond the blues : Richard Wright, psychoanalysis, and the modern idea of culture' / Eli Zaretsky Psychoanalysis and transnational politics 'Primitivity, animism, and psychoanalysis : European visions of the native 'soul' in the Dutch East Indies, 1900-1949' / Frances Gouda 'Fascism becomes desire : on Freud, Mussolini, and transnational politics' / Federico Finchelstein The transnational diffusion of psychoanalysis 'The travelling psychoanalyst : Andrew Peto and transnational explorations of psychoanalysis in Budapest, Sydney, and New York' / Joy Damousi 'Psychoanalysis, transnationalism, and national habitus : a comparative approach to the reception of psychoanalysis in Argentina and Brazil', 1910s-1940s / Mariano Ben Plotkin Challenging centre and periphery 'Paris, London, Buenos Aires : the adventures of Kleinian psychoanalysis between Europe and South America' / Alejandro Dagfal 'The lacanian movement in Argentina and Brazil : the periphery becomes the center' / Jane Russo 'Origin stories, invention of genealogies, and the early diffusion of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Argentina and Spain, 1960-1980' / Sergio E. Visacovsky. "This collection of essays approaches the history of psychoanalysis from a transnational perspective, emphasizing the flows of people, ideas and institutions across cultures and nations, and examining the factors that contributed to turn psychoanalysis into one of the systems of belief which defined the twentieth century. By examining aspects of this phenomenon across several continents, drawing on case studies from Brazil, Argentina, Australia, and the Netherlands, these essays provide a global and international consideration of the ways in which psychoanalytic ideas were circulated, contested and debated across place and time. Moving the history of psychoanalysis beyond the paradigm of national histories, this exciting new volume considers how ideas about the self, the unconscious and issues of modernity shaped understandings of the relationship between culture and self in distinctive ways."--Jacket. This collection of essays approaches the history of psychoanalysis from a transnational perspective, emphasizing the flows of people, ideas and institutions across cultures and nations, and examining the factors that contributed to turn psychoanalysis into one of the systems of belief which defined the twentieth century. By examining aspects of this phenomenon across several continents drawing on case studies from Brazil, Argentina. Australia and the Netherlands these essays provide a global and international consideration of the ways in which psychoanalytic ideas were circulated, contested and debated across place and time Moving the history of psychoanalysis beyond the paradigm of national narratives, this exciting new volume considers how ideas about the self, the unconscious and issues of modernity shaped understanding to the relationship between culture and self in distinctive ways