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
- Part II Mumbai
- Part III New York
- Chapter 5 Open, Closed, and Interrupted City
- Chapter 6 Psychoanalysis of the Unhomed: Free Clinics, New York
- Afterword: Second Sight
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Chapter 5 - Open, Closed, and Interrupted City
from Part III - New York
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
- Part II Mumbai
- Part III New York
- Chapter 5 Open, Closed, and Interrupted City
- Chapter 6 Psychoanalysis of the Unhomed: Free Clinics, New York
- Afterword: Second Sight
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines two novels by Teju Cole and one by Rawi Hage to examine the intersection of race, class, and migrancy in the context of the psychoanalytic unconscious. The Cole novels have analysts as their city-walker protagonists, while the Hage novel gives us a character who is being analyzed (when he is not scuttling around the city like a cockroach). The chapter ends with the work of Abbasi, a migrant analyst.
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- Unseen CityThe Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, pp. 163 - 186Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021