Book contents
- Unseen City
- Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
- Unseen City
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “The Poverty of Philosophy” – A Critique of Psychoanalytic Knowledge and Power
- Part I London
- Chapter 1 Eco-cosmopolitanism as Trauma Cure
- Chapter 2 The Analyst as Muse of History in Disaster Zones: Free Clinics, London
- Part II Mumbai
- Part III New York
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Chapter 1 - Eco-cosmopolitanism as Trauma Cure
from Part I - London
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 November 2021
Book contents
- Unseen City
- Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
- Unseen City
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “The Poverty of Philosophy” – A Critique of Psychoanalytic Knowledge and Power
- Part I London
- Chapter 1 Eco-cosmopolitanism as Trauma Cure
- Chapter 2 The Analyst as Muse of History in Disaster Zones: Free Clinics, London
- Part II Mumbai
- Part III New York
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
The chapter starts with Fanon’s criticism of the so-called dependency complex of the colonized and ends with him playing the Arab Doctor in Blida--Joinville, devising forms of social therapy and ergotherapy. In between, I read fiction by Aminatta Forna which examines forms of resilience in the dispossessed not graspable by ubiquitous psychiatric paradigms.
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- Unseen CityThe Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, pp. 35 - 62Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021