Christopher Bollas
towards an counter-colonial psychoanalysis
Abstract
Colonial practices – of domination and material and symbolic violence – constitute perhaps the most relevant and urgent theme we have on our horizon. Placing psychoanalysis – taken, first of all, as ethics –on the side of the subversion of colonial patterns of relationship, this article proposes the work of Christopher Bollas as a major ally for a counter-colonial path of our ways of thinking and acting, by proposing a clinic with a capacity not only to deconstruct – essential function of what we understand by psychoanalysis –, but also inventive, promoter of new and powerful existential arrangements and positions.
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