Unseen City : The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor (Cambridge Studies in Twenty-first-century Literature and Culture)

Mukherjee, Ankhi

Cambridge University Press（2021/12発売）

Cambridge University Press（2021/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 278 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781316517581
• DDC分類 809.933556

Full Description

In Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, Ankhi Mukherjee offers a magisterial work of literary and cultural criticism which examines the relationship between global cities, poverty, and psychoanalysis. Spanning three continents, this hugely ambitious book reads fictional representations of poverty with each city's psychoanalytic and psychiatric culture, particularly as that culture is fostered by state policies toward the welfare needs of impoverished populations. It explores the causal relationship between precarity and mental health through clinical case studies, the product of extensive collaborations and knowledge-sharing with community psychotherapeutic initiatives in six global cities. These are layered with twentieth- and twenty-first-century works of world literature that explore issues of identity, illness, and death at the intersections of class, race, globalisation, and migrancy. In Unseen City, Mukherjee argues that a humanistic and imaginative engagement with the psychic lives of the dispossessed is key to an adapted psychoanalysis for the poor, and that seeking equity of the unconscious is key to poverty alleviation.

Contents

Part I. London: 1. Eco-cosmopolitanism as Trauma Cure; 2. The Analyst as Muse of History in Disaster Zones: Free Clinics, London; Part II. Mumbai: 3. Slums and the Postcolonial Uncanny; 4. Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, A Practice of Freedom: Free Clinics in Urban India; Part III. New York: 5. Open, Closed, Interrupted City; 6. Psychoanalysis of the Unhomed: Free Clinics, New York.