Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography [Paperback]

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.

Acknowledgments

Introduction:Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography
Jadran Mimica

Chapter 1.Culture and Psychoanalysis: A Personal Journey
Sudhir Kakar

Chapter 2.Aspects of the Naven Ritual: Conversations with an Iatmul Woman of Papua New Guinea
Florence Weiss and Milan Stanek

Chapter 3.Descended from the Celestial Rope: From the Father to the Son, and from the Ego to the Cosmic Self
Jadran Mimica

Chapter 4.To Dream, Perchance to Cure: Dreaming and Shamanism in a Brazilian Indigenous Society
Waud H. Kracke

Chapter 5.A Psychoanalytic Revisiting of Fieldwork and Intercultural Borderlinking
Ren? Devisch

Chapter 6.On Tjukurrpa, Painting Up, and Building Thought
Craig San Roque

Chapter 7.A Cartography of Mental Health
Renata Volich Eisenbruch

Chapter 8.Psychotic Group Text: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into the Production of Moral Conscience
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