Psychoanalytic Geographies

Psychoanalytic Geographies is a unique path-breaking volume and a core text for anyone seeking to grasp how psychoanalysis helps us understand fundamental geographical questions and how geographical understandings can offer new ways of thinking psychoanalytically. Elaborating on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches that embrace geographical imaginations and a commitment toward spatial thinking this book demonstrates the breadth depth and vitality of cutting edge work in psychoanalytic geographies and presents readers with as wide a set of options as possible for taking psychoanalysis forward in their own work. It covers a wide range of themes and perspectives in terms of theoretical approaches such as Freudian Lacanian Kristevan and Irigarayian; conceptual issues such as space power identity culture political economy colonialism ethics and aesthetics; disciplinary insights including Geography English Sexuality Studies and History of Science; as well as empirical contexts such as the reception of psychoanalysis in early twentieth century England psychoanalytic geographies of violence and creativity in a small Mexican city visual cultures of second-generation Iranian artists living in Los Angeles and the hysterical underpinnings of climate change scepticism. Language: English