Pub Date: April 30, 2008
Dewey: 150.195
LCCN: 2008014436
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.64" H x 8.78" L x 5.40" W ( 0.77 lbs) 182 pages
BISAC Categories:
Literary Criticism | English Irish Scottish Welsh | Psychology | Psychotherapy | Psychoanalysis | Modern | 19th Century | History | 20th Century | European | General
Description: Psychoanalytic theory has been the critical instrument of choice for colonial critics. This book examines why critics who are otherwise suspicious of Western forms of knowledge are drawn to psychoanalytic theories, and whether it is possible to use such theories without reproducing the colonial discourse that also structures psychoanalytic thought.