Within this important and insightful book, Sally Swartz introduces readers to early entanglements of psychoanalytic theory with colonialism, and how it has led to significant and long-lasting implications for psychoanalysis.
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Introduction to and overview of colonialism in psychoanalysis.
Describes anti-colonial voices, including Fanon, Memmi, Cesaire and Mannon.
Concludes with consideration of the challenges of decolonizing psychoanalysis.
'Within Psychoanalysis and Colonialism Sally Swartz offers her colleagues and all interested a perspective unique to one seeing our world from outside of a European or North American cultural context. As a psychoanalytic psychotherapist trained and practicing in Africa, though steeped in the ideas and practices coming from those colonizing cultures, Swartz offers a carefully crafted history of how the ideas and practices of our craft have been shaped and reinforce basic assumptions underlying the political ideas and actions constituting the history within which psychoanalysis was born and matured. This look back at our past and present is an invaluable tool for any considerations concerning the unfolding value that psychoanalysis might have for the new social/economic/political configurations in which we find ourselves embedded and carried along.'
Dr Steven Knoblauch, Ph.D., Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor, Clinical Supervisor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, author of Bodies and Social Rhythms (2021)
'In Psychoanalysis and Colonialism: A Contemporary Introduction, Sally Swartz offers a timely, sensitive and accessible account of psychoanalytic entanglements with colonialism as well as the touchstones that may guide a decolonial psychoanalysis.'
Dr Wahbie Long, Director of the Child Guidance Clinic, University of Cape Town, author of Nation on the Couch: Inside South Africa's Mind (2021)
Sally Swartz is a practising psychoanalytic psychotherapist and Emeritus Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town. She has a particular interest in the fields of colonialism and decolonization in psychoanalytic theory. She is the author of Homeless Wanderers: Movement and Mental Illness in the Cape Colony in the Nineteenth Century (2015) and Ruthless Winnicott: The Role of Ruthlessness in Psychoanalysis and Political Protest (2019).
1. Introduction 2. The Colonial Freud and Jung 3. Anti-colonialism and Psychoanalysis 4. Decolonizing Psychoanalysis References Index