Psychoanalytic GeoGraPhies This page has been left blank intentionally Psychoanalytic Geographies Edited by Paul KinGsbury Simon Fraser University, Canada steve Pile Open University, United Kingdom © Paul Kingsbury and steve Pile 2014 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Paul Kingsbury and steve Pile have asserted their right under the copyright, Designs and Patents act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing company Wey court east 110 cherry street union road suite 3-1 Farnham burlington, vt 05401-3818 surrey, Gu9 7Pt usa england www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data a catalogue record for this book is available from the british library. The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Kingsbury, Paul (Paul Thomas) Psychoanalytic geographies / by Paul Kingsbury and steve Pile. pages cm. includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-1-4094-5760-2 (hardback)—isbn 978-1-4094-5761-9 (pbk.)—isbn 978-1- 4094-5762-6 (ebook)—isbn 978-1-4724-0721-4 (epub) 1. Geographical perception. 2. Geography—Psychological aspects. 3. human geography. 4. Psychoanalysis and culture. i. title. G71.5.K55 2014 910'.019—dc23 2013043987 isbn 9781409457602 (hbk) isbn 9781409457619 (pbk) isbn 9781409457626 (ebk – PDF) isbn 9781472407214 (ebk – ePub) V Printed in the united Kingdom by henry ling limited, at the Dorset Press, Dorchester, Dt1 1hD Contents List of Figures ix Notes on Contributors xi Preface by Paul Kingsbury and Steve Pile xvii Introduction: The Unconscious, Transference, Drives, Repetition and Other Things Tied to Geography 1 Paul Kingsbury and Steve Pile PaRT I: HIsTORIes anD PRaCTICes 1 Freud in the Field: Psychoanalysis, Fieldwork and Geographical Imaginations in Interwar Cambridge 41 Laura Cameron and John Forrester 2 On Freud’s Geographies 57 Liz Bondi 3 Consulting Rooms: notes Towards a Historical Geography of the Psychoanalytic setting 73 Felicity Callard 4 “Worlding” Psychoanalytic Insights: Unpicking R.D. Laing’s Geographies 89 Cheryl McGeachan 5 Mapping Trauma: Topography to Topology 103 Virginia L. Blum and Anna J. Secor vi Psychoanalytic Geographies PaRT II: PsyCHIC LIFe anD ITs sPaCes 6 Geographies of Psychic Life 119 Joyce Davidson and Hester Parr 7 a Distributed Unconscious: The Hangover, what happens in Vegas and Whether it stays There or not 135 Steve Pile 8 “Or does it explode?” Psychoanalytic Geographies of Violence and Creativity in a small Mexican City 149 Karen Rodríguez 9 “Tehrangeles,” Ca: The aesthetics of shame 165 Nazanin Naraghi 10 Psychoanalysis and the Geography of the anthropocene: Fantasy, Oil addiction and the Politics of Global Warming 181 Stephen Healy PaRT III: THe TeCHnOLOGIes OF BeCOMInG a sUBjeCT 11 When 1+1 Does not equal 2: Childhood sexuality and Laplanche’s enigmatic signifier 199 Mary E. Thomas 12 Towards a Psychoanalytic Geopolitics: The Militarization of Public schooling in the Usa 213 Ian G.R. Shaw, Jared Powell and Jessica De La Ossa 13 “Welcome Home our Military sisters”: sexual Difference and Female Veterans with PTsD 227 Deborah Thien 14 Periscope Down! Charting Masculine sexuation in submarine Films 241 Jesse Proudfoot and Paul Kingsbury Contents vii PaRT IV: sOCIaL LIFe anD ITs DIsCOnTenTs 15 “Race,” Imperializing Geographies of the Machine, and Psychoanalysis 259 Heidi J. Nast 16 a small narrow space: Postcolonial Territorialization and the Libidinal economy 279 Maureen Sioh 17 The Uncanny in the Beauty salon 295 Elizabeth R. Straughan 18 What Does it Mean for young Women to get Drunk? a Kleinian Perspective on young Women’s Relationship with alcohol 307 Melissa Stepney 19 Gender, sexuality, and Race in the Lacanian Mirror: Urinary segregation and the Bodily ego 323 Sheila L. Cavanagh Index 339 This page has been left blank intentionally List of Figures P.1 The Foro Romano as seen from the Capitoline Hill xx I.1 Freud’s 1933 map of the psyche 2 I.2 A Clinical Lesson by Doctor Charcot (1887), by Pierre-André Brouillet. Photograph by Steve Pile 8 I.3 Lacan’s map of the drives (1964) 25 I.4 Lacan’s map of alienation (1964) 28 1.1 Some members of the Torres Strait Expedition: Haddon (seated) with (l–r) Rivers, Seligman, Ray, and Wilkin. Mabuiag, 1898 43 1.2 Tansley’s relations of different complexes (1920) 50 1.3 Sketch of “Godwin Triangle” by Tansley (1923) 51 5.1 Map of schoolyard from Pynoos and Nader (1989) 109 5.2 Emma’s map, Freud (1895) 111 5.3 Two maps of trauma, side by side 113 7.1 The “Wolf Pack” on the roof of Caesar’s Palace, the night before 139 7.2 The Best Little Chapel. The Chapel was built for the film on a vacant lot (at 1236 Las Vegas Boulevard South) next to the Talk of the Town strip club, whose signs can be seen in the background. The location is near the Little White Wedding Chapel, which is famous for many celebrity “quickie” marriages 141 7.3 Alan bets Stu that he is not a good enough dentist to pull out his own tooth. Stu wins the bet, but of course his display of “balls” to Jade is also a symbolic castration; a symbol that Melissa instantly recognizes, as only she is allowed to castrate him 145 8.1 Mexico map showing Guanajuato 151 8.2 The neighborhood of La Venada 155 8.3 Participants painting a house in La Venada 156