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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Criminology, University of Southern Maine, Portland, USA
Dušan I. Bjelić
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism
Book Subtitle: Freud’s Industrial Unconscious, Benjamin’s Hashish Mimesis
Authors: Dušan I. Bjelić
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58856-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95072-0Published: 29 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95721-7Published: 15 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58856-2Published: 25 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 307
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Critical Psychology, Sociology of Culture, Cultural History, Self and Identity, Psychoanalysis