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Book SynopsisIn essays that question how the human sciences, particularly anthropology and psychoanalysis, articulate their fields of study, Crapanzano addresses nothing less than the enormous problem of defining the self in both its individual and collective projections.
Trade ReviewEnormously learned, quite brilliant in its details, and magisterial in its theoretical purpose. -- Hayden White
The argument of the book is both subtle and telling, lodged between Hermes’ dilemma of a message he cannot deliver without co-opting and Hamlet’s predicament of a language from which one cannot ‘steal.’ -- Roy Wagner, University of Virginia
Table of ContentsIntroduction PART 1: THE TEXTUALIZED SELF 1. Centering 2. Hermes' Dilemma 3. The Self, the Third, and Desire 4. Self-Characterization PART 2: THE DIALOGIC SELF 5. Text, Transference, and Indexicality 6. Talking (about) Psychoanalysis 7. Mohammed and Dawia 8. Dialogue PART 3: THE EXPERIENCED SELF 9. Symbols and Symbolizing 10. Glossing Emotions 11. Saints, Jnun, and Dreams 12. Rite of Return PART 4: THE SUBMERGED SELF 13. Maimed Rites and Wild and Whirling Words Notes References Index
