
The Geography of Meanings
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Place, Space, Land, and Dislocation
IPA Publications (Publisher)
Published on 31. December 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-905888-03-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a collection of "stories", and just as the Stories of the Dreaming act as a container of experiences for the indigenous people, it attempts to be a container for experiences that had not had enough exposure in psychoanalytic literature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
379 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-905888-03-0 (9781905888030)
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Salman Akhtar
The Geography of Meanings
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Place, Space, Land, and Dislocation
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07/2019
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Salman Akhtar
The Geography of Meanings
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Place, Space, Land, and Dislocation
E-Book
10/2018
1st Edition
Routledge
€48.49
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Salman Akhtar
The Geography of Meanings
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Place, Space, Land, and Dislocation
E-Book
10/2018
1st Edition
Routledge
€48.49
Available for download
Persons
Akhtar, Salman
Content
Foreword -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Space -- Human space, psychic space, analytic space, geopolitical space -- Place, time, and land -- Unsettling the settler: history, culture, race, and the Australian self -- The Australian patient: traumatic pasts and the work of history -- Lost children -- Coming to terms with the country: some incidents on first meeting Aboriginal locations and Aboriginal thoughts -- Creating mental space: assimilating recovered Maori self-representations -- Dislocation -- The trauma of geographical dislocation: leaving, arriving, mourning, and becoming -- The clinical discovery of time and place -- Epilogue