Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism

Dušan I. Bjelić is Professor at University of Southern Maine USA. He obtained his PhD in Sociology from Boston University, USA. He is the author of Galileo's Pendulum (2003) and Normalizing the Balkans (2011) and the co-editor (with Obrad Savić) of Balkan as Metaphor (2002).

• Introduction.- 1. On Cocaine's radical ambiguity.- 2. Freud's 'Cocaine Episode'.- 3. From Colonial to Sexual Conversion: Freud as 'Woman'.- 4. Freud as 'Conquistador' of the Underworld and as 'Bosnian Turk'.- 5. Freud on the Acropolis: Between Oedipus and 'Little Moor' Conclusion.