CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Globalizing the Unconscious 1
5. PART I. Ethnohistory, Colonialism, and the Cosmopolitan Psychoanalytic Subject
6. 1. Sovereignty in Crisis 21
7. 2. Denial, La Crypte, and Magic: Contributions to the Global Unconscious from Late Colonial French West African Psychiatry 43
8. 3. Géza Róheim and the Australian Aborigine: Psychoanalytic Anthropology during the Interwar Years 75
9. 4. Colonial Dominions and the Psychoanalytic Couch: Synergies of Freudian Theory with Bengali Hindu Thought and Practices in British India 97
10. 5. Psychoanalysis, Race Relations, and National Identity: The Reception of Psychoanalysis in Brazil, 1910 to 1940 113
11. PART II. Trauma, Subjectivity, Sovereignty: Psychoanalysis and Postcolonial Critique
12. 6. The Totem Vanishes, the Hordes Revolt: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of the Indonesian Struggle for Independence 141
13. 7. Placing Haiti in Geopsychoanalytic Space: Toward a Postcolonial Concept of Traumatic Mimesis 167
14. 8. Colonial Madness and the Poetics of Suffering: Structural Violence and Kateb Yacine 199
15. 9. Ethnopsychiatry and the Postcolonial Encounter: A French Psychopolitics of Otherness 223
16. Concluding Remarks: Hope, Demand, and the Perpetual 247
17. Bibliography 265
18. Contributors 295
19. Index 299