Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties

by Warwick Anderson

By the 1920s, psychoanalysis was a technology of both the late-colonial state and anti-imperialism. Insights from psychoanalysis shaped European and North American ideas about the colonial world and the character and potential of native cultures. Psychoanalytic discourse, from Freud's description of female sexuality as a "dark continent" to his conceptualization of primitive societies and the origins of civilization, became inextricable from the ideologies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822349795
• ISBN13: 9780822349792
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"