Explorations in Psychoanalytical Ethnography

by Mimica, Jadran

• ISBN13: 9781845454029
• ISBN10: 1845454022
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-30
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

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

Introduction : explorations in psychoanalytic ethnography	p. 1
Culture and psychoanalysis : a personal journey
Aspects of the Naven ritual : conversations with an Iatmul woman of Papua New Guinea	p. 45
Descended from the celestial rope : from the father to the son, and from the ego to the cosmic self	p. 77
To dream, perchance to cure : dreaming and shamanism in a Brazilian indigenous society	p. 106
A psychoanalytic revisiting of fieldwork and intercultural borderlinking	p. 121
On Tjukurrpa, painting up, and building thought	p. 148
A cartography of mental health	p. 173
Psychotic group text : a psychoanalytic inquiry into the production of moral conscience	p. 186
Interpreting numinous experiences	p. 204
The religion of psychoanalysis, or ode to a nightingale	p. 224
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