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Book SynopsisArgues that the psychoanalytic self was constituted through the specifically national-colonial encounters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and that therefore somewhat paradoxically perhaps, psychoanalysis is crucial for understanding postcoloniality and decolonization.
Trade Review“Ranjana Khanna articulates and outlines a transnational feminist ethics. Such an ethics is badly needed and awaited with eagerness by many.
Dark Continents is, indeed, a terrific integration of psychoanalytic thought with postcolonial and feminist politics by way of a critical intimacy with the combined ethics of ambiguity and difference.“—Mieke Bal, University of Amsterdam
Table of ContentsPreface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Worlding Psychoanalysis 1
Genealogies
1. Psychoanalysis and Archaeology 33
2. Freud in the Sacred Grove 66
Colonial Rescriptings
3. War, Decolonization, Psychoanalysis 99
4. Colonial Melancholy 145
Haunting and the Future
5. The Ethical Ambiguities of Transnational Feminism 207
6. Hamlet in the Colonial Archive 231
Coda: The Lament 269
Notes 275
Index 303
