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Freud and the Non-European
In this chapter, I concentrate on Freud and the Non-European, which is Said’s (2003) final book before losing his life to leukemia. The book is a...
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Freud in America: The Golden Age, the Freud Wars, and Beyond
This chapter addresses the reception and dissemination of Freudian ideas in the United States from the Golden Age through the Freud wars to the rise...
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Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia”
This chapter on melancholy/melancholia addresses the use of these categories over the last 30 years in the analysis of cultural difference associated...
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Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
“If,” as Robert Young notes, “‘so-called post-structuralism’ is the product of a single historical moment, then that moment is probably not May 1968...
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Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia”
This chapter on melancholy/melancholia addresses the use of these categories over the last 30 years in the analysis of cultural difference associated...
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Consciousness and ASCs in the Non-West: Pioneering Studies
This is a brief review of traditional social anthropology literature in relation to consciousness and ASCs. Early pioneers who documented ASCs in...
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Clothing, Sublimation, and the Enjoyment of War
Intergroup aggression occurs in many animal species but warfare has no clear non-human analogues. Among the features distinguishing war is that...
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The Rise of Argentine Pavlovism: Early Readings, Appropriations, and Controversies (1936–1960)
This chapter analyzes the early receptions in Argentina of the neurophysiological, psychological, and clinical research carried out in the USSR....
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Freedom and Anxiety: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Super-ego in the Postmodern Era
The purpose of this study is to explore how the postmodern era may have altered the functioning of the Freudian super-ego. The aim of this paper is...
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TRAUMA, PREJUDICE, LARGE-GROUP IDENTITY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Esca** Nazi annexation of Austria, Sigmund Freud and his family left there in 1938 to live the rest of their lives in exile in the house now known...
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Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory
“If,” as Robert Young notes, “‘so-called post-structuralism’ is the product of a single historical moment, then that moment is probably not May 1968...
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Between Utopia and Dystopia: The Virtual Happiness of Homo Digitalis Just a Click Away
This manuscript will focus not so much on the crisis of a consolidated happiness as on what might be called the emergence of the original...
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Creativity and the Creative Industries: History and Context
This detailed account of the literature covers, in the first instance, the development of the singular term culture industry to the pluralized...
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Emotion and Human Sciences: On the Forms of Knowing
Traditional forms of knowledge in human sciences are primarily understood and pursued in terms of “cognitive” realm by divesting the emotional...
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Exploring the emotional and thematic matrix of dreams during war: the role of anxiety and depression
Dreams serve as a psychological space where the human mind grapples with burdensome issues, and war undoubtedly falls into that category. Inspired by...
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(Childhood) Memories at the Intersection of Coloniality and Decoloniality
The aim of this paper is to expand the concepts of coloniality and decoloniality to realms hardly discussed in contemporary scholarship—to a...
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DOUBLINGS BETWEEN BEWILDERMENT AND ENLIGHTENMENT: READING FREUD WITH HEINE ON THE TROUBLED IDENTITY OF HIRSCH–HYACINTH
The present paper examines Freud’s collapse of Heine’s poignantly observed multi-cultural narratives in discerning the joke’s mechanism of doubling...
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The Indigenous View and Categories of Normality
I am going to consider “indigenous” in this book as an identity and as a process. We might use the word “endogenous” to mean those things that...
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Experiences of Beauty and Eco-Sorrow: Truths of the Anthropocene and the Possibility of Inoperative Care
This article investigates the experience of beauty and eco-sorrow with the aim of depicting some painful truths, as well as existential responses to...
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The Silence of Othered Species: The Anthropocene Age, Trauma, and the Ontological Rift
This article considers the notion of trauma in relation to more-than-human species and in the context of the environmental catastrophes of the...