Author: Manasi Kumar File Type: pdf In Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir, Manasi Kumar, Anup Dhar, and Anurag Mishra discuss the synergies and diachronic thought that is emblematic of the current psychoanalytic narrative in India and examine what psychoanalysis in India could become. The contributors to this edited collection connect problems around culture, family, traditions, and the burgeoning political changes in the Indian landscape in order to provide critical rejoinders to the maternal-feminine thematic in Indias cultural psyche. Specifically, the contributors examine issues surrounding ethnic violence, therapists gender and political identities, narratives of illness, and spiritual and traditional approaches to healing. Contributors Erica Burman & Amrita Narayanan & Sabah Siddiqui & Bhargavi Davar & Urvashi Agarwal & Nilofer Kaul & Shalini Masih & Zehra Mehdi & Atreyee Sen & Ajeet Mathur & Sudhir Kakar & Alfred Margulies & Shifa Haq **Review This homage for Sudhir Kakar is a must read for all those who are interested in the current state of cultural and clinical applications of psychoanalysis in India. (Christiane Hartnack, University of Vienna and author of Psychoanalysis in Colonial India) This volume is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on what I have termed anthropological psychoanalysis. Unshackled from the Eurocentric, phallocentric, and heuristically-colonizing psychoanalytic anthropology, the contributors to this book locate psychic development in its cultural matrix, forge true interdisciplinary links, and accord significance to the regional idiom in therapeutic discourse. Within the context of India, they cover wide-ranging topics that include the mother-child relationship, the evolution of identity, moral narcissism, yoga, misogyny, and the ever-challenging notion of a cultural unconscious. This is a deeply informative book about both India and psychoanalysis! (Salman Akhtar, MD, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia) About the Author Manasi Kumar is senior lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Nairobi and research fellow at the University College London and University of Cape Town. Anup Dhar is professor in the School of Human Studies at Ambedkar University, Delhi, and director of the Centre for Development Practice (CDP). Anurag Mishra is adjunct faculty in the School of Human Studies at Ambedkar University, Delhi, and chief of the psychoanalytic unit at Fortis Healthcare.

Author: Vivienne Brough-Evans File Type: pdf Vivienne Brough-Evans proposes a compelling new way of reevaluating aspects of international surrealism by means of the category of divin fou, and consequently deploys theories of sacred ecstasy as developed by the College de Sociologie (193739) as a critical tool in shedding new light on the literary oeuvre of non-French writers who worked both within and against a surrealist framework. The minor surrealist genre of prose literature is considered herein, rather than surrealisms mainstay, poetry, with the intention of fracturing preconceptions regarding the medium of surrealist expression. The aim is to explore whether International surrealism can begin to be more fully explained by an occluded strain of dissident surrealist thought that searches outside the self through the affects of ekstasis. Bretonian surrealism is widely discussed in the field of surrealist studies, and there is a need to consider what is left out of surrealist practice when analysed through this Bretonian lens. The College de Sociologie and Georges Batailles theories provide a model of such elements of dissident surrealism, which is used to analyse surrealist or surrealist influenced prose by Alejo Carpentier, Leonora Carrington and Gellu Naum respectively representing postcolonial, feminist and Balkan locutions. The College and Batailles dissident surrealism diverges significantly from the concerns and approach towards the subject explored by surrealism. Using the concept of ekstasis to organise Batailles theoretical ideas of excess and inner experience and the Colleges thoughts on the sacred it is possible to propose a new way of reading types of International surrealist literature, many of which do not come to the forefront of the surrealist literary oeuvre. **Review Provocative, dissident, surprising, international in focus, historically grounded Vivienne Brough Evans book is everything one would wish for in a study of literary surrealism and avant-garde prose. It will help redraw the map of twentieth-century literary history. Peter Hulme, University of Essex, UK About the Author Vivienne Brough-Evans is an independent scholar, UK.

Author: Jason O'Donoughue File Type: pdf ODonoughue writes thoughtfully and poetically about Floridas geological history and long-term patterns of environmental change and cultural adaptation. A compelling case for the relevance of archaeology to current environmental concerns.--Christopher B. Rodning, coeditor of Fort San Juan and the Limits of Empire Examines Floridas critically important springs and discusses how they were used and modified over thousands of years by local inhabitants, placing the springs in a deep historic context while offering well-informed suggestions for their long term management and use.--David G. Anderson, coeditor of Archaeology of the Mid-Holocene Southeast In Water from Stone, Jason ODonoughue investigates the importance of natural springs to ancient Floridians. Throughout their history, Floridas springs have been gathering places for far-flung peoples, much as they are today. ODonoughue finds that springs began flowing several millennia earlier than previously thought, serving as sites of habitation, burials, ritualized feasting, and monument building for Floridas earliest peoples. ODonoughue moves beyond the focus on the ecological roles of springs and the current popular image of springs as timeless and pristine, approaches taken by many archaeologists and conservationists. He argues for an archaeological perspective that emphasizes the social and historical importance of springs, explaining how this viewpoint creates a bridge between past and present, enhances the intrinsic value of springs, and is vital to the success of contemporary conservation efforts. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History Ripley P. Bullen Series

Author: Richard A. Skues File Type: pdf In recent years historians of psychoanalysis have come to view Freuds case of Anna O. as a failure and have cast doubt on the very foundations of psychoanalysis itself. This new study challenges existing historical scholarship by providing an unparalleled review of the available evidence on the case and reaches new conclusions about its outcome. **