The subject of reading and the colonial unconscious: countertransference in J.M. Coetzee's 'Waiting for the Barbarians.'
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'Waiting for the Barbarians' by J.M. Coetzee is discussed in relation to countertransference and colonialism. Topics include Freud's countertransference and narcissistic discourse, countertransference and intersubjective relation in Lacan, the sovereign subject and the colonial unconscious in 'Waiting for the Barbarians,' the impotent reader and solipsistic discourse.
Publication Name: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0002-9548
Year: 2000
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The products of the imagination: psychoanalytic theory and postmodern literary criticism
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The relationship between postmodern literary criticism and psychoanalytic theory is discussed, with a focus on theories of the self. The epistemological universe of relational psychoanalytic theories is seen as comparable to that of postmodern literary criticism.
Publication Name: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0002-9548
Year: 2000
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A field guide to cinetherapy: on celluloid psychoanalysis and its practitioners
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The portrayal of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in motion pictures is discussed. According to Irving Schneider and Krin and Glen Gabbard, cinematic therapists tend to fall into one of three stereotypes: dippy, evil, or wonderful.
Publication Name: The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0002-9548
Year: 2000
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