Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: Explorations at the Edges of Culture and Consciousness

Gammeltoft, Tine; Segal, Lotte Buch

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“…Feminist theory, queer theory, film studies, cultural studies, and psychosocial studies are unimaginable without it. There are fantasy seams coursing through history and anthropology (Gammeltoft & Segal, 2016; Scott, 2001). That geography could be said to have ingested Berlant but not ingested fantasy – a few psychoanalytic geographers and fellow travellers notwithstanding (e.g., Dubow, 2022) – makes me pause.…”

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Encountering Berlant part one: Concepts otherwise

Anderson

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Geographical Journal

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In Part 1 of 'Encountering Berlant', we encounter the promise and provocation of Lauren Berlant's work. In 1000-word contributions, geographers and others stay with what Berlant's thought offers contemporary human geography. They amplify an encounter with their work, demonstrating how a concept, idea, or style disrupts something, opens up a new possibility, or simply invites thinking otherwise. The encounters range across the incredible body of work Berlant left

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Section: Fantasymentioning

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Encountering Berlant part one: Concepts otherwise

Anderson

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Baćević

et al. 2022

Geographical Journal

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“…In addition to recording our longer interviews, I also made notes during informal conversations or soon after. Denham (2014), Gammeltoft and Segal (2016), and Willen and Seeman (2012) for overviews of psychoanalytically inspired approaches within anthropology.…”

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“…22See Denham (2014), Gammeltoft and Segal (2016), and Willen and Seeman (2012) for overviews of psychoanalytically inspired approaches within anthropology.…”

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Prosthetics of the Soul: Disability, Christianity, and Transitional Experience in Uganda

Zoanni

2021

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This article reflects on the religious narratives and psychological processes of transformation in the life of a disabled man in Uganda. It calls attention to the work of Christian genre conventions that privilege decisive breaks as well as to the ways that this man's subjectivity is irreducible to such breaks. Here, the article takes inspiration from psychodynamic approaches and a psychoanalytic ethics of close listening. The analysis draws particularly on the work of D. W. Winnicott to think about transformation as "transition" or a mode of personal development that is partial, uneven, and reliant on enabling objects and relations. It conceives of these objects and relations as "prosthetics of the soul" that scaffold people's material and psychic lives, allowing change that is meaningful yet rarely seamless or straightforward.

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“…Although Obeyesekere's Freudian analysis of cultural and personal symbols may be contested, his main argument that there is no necessary contradiction between culture and emotion is hardly controversial to contemporary anthropologists. On the contrary, research in the intersection between culture and emotion has opened an interesting avenue for on‐going conversations between psychoanalysis and anthropology, as argued in the introduction to this volume (Gammeltoft and Segal ).…”

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Public Anxieties and Projective Identification: Therapeutic Encounters Between Danish Clairvoyants and Their Clients

Steffen

2016

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The capacity to receive occult messages and look into the future is claimed by individuals in most societies and probably always has been. In Denmark, clairvoyance is a popular service offered at the alternative market for counseling and healing. During my fieldwork among Danish spiritualist mediums in 2007–08, I was often puzzled by the way in which clairvoyants and clients seemed to share the same kinds of problems. This observation steered my interests toward understanding how personal sensations and feelings are exchanged in therapeutic encounters and raised questions about who is doing what to whom. Drawing on Jung's concept of the wounded healer to highlight the clairvoyant's role as a channel for societal anxieties and Melanie Klein's concept of projective identification as a framework for understanding the defense mechanisms at stake in object relations, I argue that psychoanalysis may add an important critical dimension to the anthropology of therapeutic encounters.

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Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: Explorations at the Edges of Culture and Consciousness

Cited by 13 publications

References 30 publications

Encountering Berlant part one: Concepts otherwise

Encountering Berlant part one: Concepts otherwise

Prosthetics of the Soul: Disability, Christianity, and Transitional Experience in Uganda

Public Anxieties and Projective Identification: Therapeutic Encounters Between Danish Clairvoyants and Their Clients

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