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The Transnational Unconscious

Essays in the History of Psychoanalysis and Transnationalism

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Joy Damousi

    1. School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Mariano Ben Plotkin

    1. Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series (PMSTH)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  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

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 257-264
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia

    Joy Damousi

  • Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina

    Mariano Ben Plotkin

About the editors


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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