The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: Colonial War, Mental Illness, and Psychoanalysis
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Psychoanalysis in Politics and Literary Criticism
Psychoanalysis has its foundations and roots in the theories of Freud who developed it in various directions. You'll see psychoanalysis use the lot in literary criticism and media criticism as well outside of a clinical context. So when asking what's at stake in applying psychoanalysis to politics we have to ask sort of how does the psychoanalysis in politics can interact on the one hand or both hands. We're literally seeing phenomenon talking about his clinical psycho analytic practice with patience, says author David Perry.
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