Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography

Jadran Mimica

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2007
• eBook ISBN: 9780857456946
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different approach: its concerns are the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psycho-analytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically framed ethnographic project. In fact, some contributors here argue that the anthropological interpretation of human existence is not sustainable without psychoanalysis; others take a less extreme radical stance but still maintain that the unconscious matrix of the human psyche and of the intersubjective (social) reality of any given cultural life-world is a vital domain of anthropological and sociological inquiry and understanding.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography
• Chapter 1 - Culture and Psychoanalysis: A Personal Journey
• Chapter 2 - Aspects of the Naven Ritual: Conversations with an Iatmul Woman of Papua New Guinea
• Chapter 3 - Descended from the Celestial Rope: From the Father to the Son, and from the Ego to the Cosmic Self
• Chapter 4 - To Dream, Perchance to Cure: Dreaming and Shamanism in a Brazilian Indigenous Society
• Chapter 5 - A Psychoanalytic Revisiting of Fieldwork and Intercultural Borderlinking
• Chapter 6 - On Tjukurrpa, Painting Up, and Building Thought
• Chapter 7 - A Cartography of Mental Health
• Chapter 8 - Psychotic Group Text: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into the Production of Moral Conscience
• Chapter 9 - Interpreting Numinous Experiences
• Chapter 10 - The Religion of Psychoanalysis, or Ode to a Nightingale
• Subject Index
• Names Index