Aboriginal Populations In The Mind: Race And Primitivity In Psychoanalysis

Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: Race and Primitivity in Psychoanalysis

Review[Serves] as an imaginative blueprint for doing similar studies of race and psychiatric thought.... In the way she conceptualizes this terrain, and in the observations she offers, she is certainly without parallel. (Andrew Fearnley Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences)Brickman demonstrates an excellent understanding of the history of both anthropology and psychoanalysis. And she uses it deftly in a post-colonial deconstruction of Freud's ideas. (William Wedenoja Religion)Brickman has done psychoanalysis a powerful service here. (Stephen Frosh The Psychoanalytic Review)Brickman has put together in a new way the often contradictory puzzle that we know as psychoanalysis.... This book will change the way we read Freud. (Diane Jonte-Pace Religious Studies Review)An intriguing study... highly original and intellectually exciting. (Gilbert Herdt, San Francisco State University)One of the finest critical pieces on psychoanalysis that I have read... [an] important and beautifully written book. (Michael Oppenheim, Concordia University, Montreal)Very useful, clear, and thorough... Brickman has provided a good compass for this moment of psychoanalysis in search of its future. (Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research)What part does racial difference play in psychoanalysis? What can be learned when considering this question from a postcolonial perspective? In this subtle and commanding analysis, Celia Brickman explores how the colonialist racial discourse of late-nineteenth-century anthropology found its way into Freud