Psychoanalysis and Politics: Exclusion and the Politics of Representation

278 Pages·2012·3.643 MB·English

by  Lene Auestad

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND POLITICS

PSYCHOANALYSIS
AND POLITICS
Exclusion and the Politics
of Representation
Edited by
Lene Auestad
First published 2012 byKarnac Books Ltd.
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CONTENTS
ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ix
INTRODUCTION xii
Lene Auestad
PART I: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS
Editor’s introduction to chapter one 3
CHAPTER ONE
The dread of sameness: social hatred and Freud’s “narcissism
of minor differences” 7
Karl Figlio
Editor’s introduction to chapter two 25
CHAPTER TWO
Subjectivity and absence: prejudice as a psycho-social theme 29
Lene Auestad
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vi CONTENTS
Editor’s introduction to chapter three 43
CHAPTER THREE
Metapsychological approaches to exclusion 47
Jonathan Davidoff
Editor’s introduction to chapter four 65
CHAPTER FOUR
The excluded in identification 67
Calum Neill
PART II: QUESTIONING CASES OF EXCLUSION
Editor’s introduction to chapter five 87
CHAPTER FIVE
True believer: racism and one Nazi ideologist 91
Martyn Housden
Editor’s introduction to chapter six 111
CHAPTER SIX
Staring and phantasy: a speculative attempt to understand
and address the widely observed misrepresentation
and exclusion of people with disfigurements 113
Jane Frances
Editor’s introduction to chapter seven 135
CHAPTER SEVEN
“Who is afraid of DSM?” The place of the subject
in the society of therapy 139
René Rasmussen
Editor’s introduction to chapter eight 151
CHAPTER EIGHT
Islamism and xenophobia 155
Sverre Varvin
CONTENTS vii
Editor’s introduction to chapter nine 169
CHAPTER NINE
Traces of trauma in post-conflict Guatemala: theoretical
reflections on the effects of trauma on social organisation 173
Elisabeth Rohr
PART III: THE EXCLUSION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS:
LIMITS AND EXTENSIONS
Editor’s introduction to chapter ten 199
CHAPTER TEN
Psychoanalysis behind iron curtains 203
Ferenc Ero˝s
Editor’s introduction to chapter eleven 223
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The extensions of psychoanalysis: colonialism,
post-colonialism, and hospitality 227
Julia Borossa
INDEX 245

ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
Lene Auestad is research fellow in philosophy, University of Oslo,
affiliated with the Centre for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious
Minorities, Oslo. She moved to the UK to pursue her long-standing inter-
est in British psychoanalysis. She is a coordinator of Psychoanalysis and
Politics. Working at the interface of psychoanalytic thinking and ethics/
political theory, her writing has focused on the themes of emotions,
prejudice, and minority rights. She has co-edited a book on Hannah
Arendt in Norwegian.
Julia Borossa is director of the research centre and of the programmes
in psychoanalysis at Middlesex University. She is the editor of Sandor
Ferenczi: Selected Writings (1999) and (with Ivan Ward) of Psychoanaly-
sis, Fascism, Fundamentalism (2009) and the author of Hysteria (2001).
Her work on the histories and politics of psychoanalysis has appeared
in edited collections and journals, including the Oxford Literary Review,
the Journal of European Studies, and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
Jonathan Davidoff, MA, is a psychologist trained at the Universi-
dad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. He is currently a psychoanalytic
psychotherapy trainee at the Tavistock Centre in London. He is one
of the coordinators of Psychoanalysis and Politics, and is part of other
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