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published on October 31, 2024
Divya Dwivedi
https://doi.org/10.5840/ecoethica2024102565
The Ethics of Thinking Psychoanalysis Beyond Europe
Psychoanalysis cannot be excluded from questions of psyche, health, and society in medical care and medical ethics. But can psychoanalysis be conceived as a therapeutic possibility beyond Europe? The ethics of thinking psychoanalysis beyond Europe must first confront the abnegated cartography of Europe and its beyond and do so without confining itself to the colonial moment. It must also confront the politics of the circuits that psychoanalysis has already inhabited. Such an ethic must confront caste as the continent¡ªto indulge in the old witz¡ªneither dark nor unconscious and yet hidden in plain sight both in Indian and European psychoanalysis. Unlike the unnameable Latin America that Derrida felt compelled in 1981 to name within psychoanalysis in the name of ethics, we will have to confront the politics of other hidden names¡ªIndia, Orient, ¡°Aryan¡±¡ªthat swarm around this unnamed ¡°caste¡± in the history, and possibly the future, of psychoanalysis.