Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: May 18, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781845454029
Subjects: Ethnography; Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory; Social Science; Psychology; Sociology; General; Nonfiction / Social Science; Anthropology - Physical; Cognition and culture; Ethnopsychology
Description: "Whereas most anthropological research is grounded in social, cultural and biological analysis of the human condition, this volume opens up a different approach: its concerns are the psychic depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psycho-analytic practice and/or the psychoanalytically framed ethnographic project. In fact, some contributors here argue that the anthropological interpretation of human existence is not sustainable without psychoanalysis; others take a less extreme radical stance but still maintain that the unconscious matrix of the human psyche and of the intersubjective (social) reality of any given cultural life-world is a vital domain of anthropological and sociological inquiry and understanding."--Jacket.