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Normalizing the Balkans : geopolitics of psychoanalysis and psychiatry /
Normalizing the Balkans argues that, following the historical patterns of colonial psychoanalysis and psychiatry in British India and French Africa as well as Nazi psychoanalysis and psychiatry, the psychoanalysis and psychiatry of the Balkans during the 1990s deployed the language of psychic normal...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Normalizing the Balkans argues that, following the historical patterns of colonial psychoanalysis and psychiatry in British India and French Africa as well as Nazi psychoanalysis and psychiatry, the psychoanalysis and psychiatry of the Balkans during the 1990s deployed the language of psychic normality to represent the space of the Other as insane geography and to justify its military, or its symbolic, takeover. Freud's self-analysis, influenced by his journeys through the Balkans, was a harbinger of orientalism as articulated by Said. However, whereas Said intended Orientalism to be a criti. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (192 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781409433163 1409433161 1317086708 9781317086703 1283297434 9781283297431 9786613297433 6613297437 |