The Transnational Unconscious

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Joy Damousi, Mariano Ben Plotkin

      Pages 1-16

3. Psychoanalysis and Transnational Modernism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Three Roads from Vienna: Psychoanalysis, Modernism and Social Welfare

      • Elizabeth Ann Danto

      Pages 19-42

   3. Beyond the Blues: Richard Wright, Psychoanalysis, and the Modern Idea of Culture

      • Eli Zaretsky

      Pages 43-70

4. Psychoanalysis and Transnational Politics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Primitivity, Animism and Psychoanalysis: European Visions of the Native ‘Soul’ in the Dutch East Indies, 1900–1949

      • Frances Gouda

      Pages 73-96

   3. Fascism Becomes Desire: On Freud, Mussolini and Transnational Politics

      • Federico Finchelstein

      Pages 97-123

5. The Transnational Diffusion of Psychoanalysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. The Travelling Psychoanalyst: Andrew Peto and Transnational Explorations of Psychoanalysis in Budapest, Sydney and New York

      • Joy Damousi

      Pages 127-144

   3. Psychoanalysis, Transnationalism and National Habitus: A Comparative Approach to the Reception of Psychoanalysis in Argentina and Brazil (1910s–1940s)

      • Mariano Ben Plotkin

      Pages 145-176

6. Challenging Centre and Periphery

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. Paris-London-Buenos Aires: The Adventures of Kleinian Psychoanalysis between Europe and South America

      • Alejandro Dagfal

      Pages 179-198

   3. The Lacanian Movement in Argentina and Brazil: The Periphery Becomes the Center

      • Jane Russo

      Pages 199-226

   4. Origin Stories, Invention of Genealogies and the Early Diffusion of Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Argentina and Spain (1960–1980)

      • Sergio Eduardo Visacovsky

      Pages 227-256

7. Back Matter

   Pages 257-264

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This collection of essays approaches the history of psychoanalysis from a transnational perspective, emphasizing the flows of people, ideas and institution across cultures and nations, and examining the factors that contributed to turn psychoanalysis into one of the systems of beliefs that defined the Twentieth century.

• Europe
• Exploration
• history
• History of Psychoanalysis
• Lacanian psychoanalysis
• pain
• psychoanalysis
• The Dutch East Indies

• School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia

  Joy Damousi

• Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina

  Mariano Ben Plotkin

JOY DAMOUSI is Profesor of History and Head of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has published widely in the fields of feminist history, women's history, labour history and Australian cultural and intellectual history. Her recent publications include the prize-winning Freud in the Antipodes: A cultural history of psychoanalysis in Australia.
 
MARIANO PLOTKIN is a member of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina) and researcher at the Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social. He is also a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Buenos Aires). His books include Mañana es San Perón (1994; English edition by Scholarly Resources, 2003) and Freud in the Pampas (Stanford 2001; Spanish edition 2003). He also edited several volumes on topics related to the history of psychoanalysis and of social sciences.

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