Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-297) and index.
Ethnohistory.colonialism, and the cosmopolitan psychoanalytic subject: Sovereignty in crisis / John D. Cash ; Denial, la crypte, and magic : contributions to the global unconscious from late colonial French West African psychiatry / Alice Bullard ; Géza Róheim and the Australian Aborigine : psychoanalytic anthropology during the interwar years / Joy Damousi ; Colonial dominions and the psychoanalytic couch : synergies of Freudian theory with Bengali Hindu thought and practices in British India / Christiane Hartnack ; Psychoanalysis, race relations, and national Identity : the reception of psychoanalysis in Brazil, 1910 to 1940 / Mariano Ben Plotkin -- Trauma, subjectivity, sovereignty : psychoanalysis and postcolonial critique: The totem vanishes, the hordes revolt : a psychoanalytic interpretation of the Indonesian struggle for independence / Hans Pols ; Placing Haiti in geopsychoanalytic space : toward a postcolonial concept of traumatic mimesis / Deborah Jenson ; Colonial madness and the poetics of suffering : structural violence and Kateb Yacine / Richard C. Keller ; Ethnopsychiatry and the postcolonial encounter : a French psychopolitics of otherness / Didier Fassin ; Concluding remarks: Hope, demand and the perpetual / Ranjana Kanna