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Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis

From Uneasy Engagements to Effective Critique

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  1. Mrinalini Greedharry
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction Of Two Minds: The Uneasy Relationship between Postcolonial Theory and Psychoanalysis

    • Mrinalini Greedharry
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Fanonian Psychoanalytic

    • Mrinalini Greedharry
    Pages 15-43

  4. ‘None of them is true but all of them are realities’: Ashis Nandy’s Psychology of Resistance

    • Mrinalini Greedharry
    Pages 44-72

  5. Homi Bhabha and the Psychoanalytic Truth

    • Mrinalini Greedharry
    Pages 73-104

  6. Anti-dote: Deleuze and Guattari’s Critique of Psychoanalysis

    • Mrinalini Greedharry
    Pages 105-134

  7. Reshaping Postcolonial Relations with Psychoanalysis

    • Mrinalini Greedharry
    Pages 135-158

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 159-182
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Psychoanalytic theory has been the critical instrument of choice for colonial critics. This book examines why critics who are otherwise suspicious of Western forms of knowledge are drawn to psychoanalytic theories, and whether it is possible to use such theories without reproducing the colonial discourse that also structures psychoanalytic thought.

About the author

MRINALINI GREEDHARRY was a SSHRCC Doctoral Fellow and British Council ORS Scholar at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, where she obtained her PhD in 2005. Currently working as an independent scholar, she researches literature as a form of ethico-political critique and lectures regularly on the culture of colonialism.

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