Robert Beshara, "Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
New Books in Psychoanalysis
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The Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis of Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism
Contrapuntal psycho analysisis to account for, lets a colonial or post colonial psychoanalysis. Contrapunt is the term used by edward said an his sequel to orientalism, culture and imperialism. And so he tried to kind of be inspired by this idea from music seriing applied to textual criticism. This is how you can analyze a colonial text and also figure out some kind of de colonial dimension and an dimension of liberation or resistance at the same time. That's basically what i tried to do.
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