Del i serien Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture

Unseen City

The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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In Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, Ankhi Mukherjee offers a magisterial work of literary and cultural criticism which examines the relationship between global cities, poverty, and psychoanalysis. Spanning three continents, this hugely ambitious book reads fictional representations of poverty with each city's psychoanalytic and psychiatric culture, particularly as that culture is fostered by state policies toward the welfare needs of impoverished populations. It explores the causal relationship between precarity and mental health through clinical case studies, the product of extensive collaborations and knowledge-sharing with community psychotherapeutic initiatives in six global cities. These are layered with twentieth- and twenty-first-century works of world literature that explore issues of identity, illness, and death at the intersections of class, race, globalisation, and migrancy. In Unseen City, Mukherjee argues that a humanistic and imaginative engagement with the psychic lives of the dispossessed is key to an adapted psychoanalysis for the poor, and that seeking equity of the unconscious is key to poverty alleviation.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-12-09
Mått157 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt530 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
Antal sidor278
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781316517581

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Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College. She is the author of two monographs and the editor of three essay collections. What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (2014) won the British Academy Prize for English Literature. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from the British Academy, AHRC, and Wellcome Trust.

'Considering resonances among contemporary psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature, and film, Ankhi Mukherjee paints a picture of the world we live in that at once illuminates multiple domains. Mukherjee's chapters encompass what she learned from immersion in the trenches of clinical programs addressing the experiences of homeless and excluded people worldwide, and from the representation of these lives in film and literature, all in the context of philosophically based meaning-making. Whether you are a psychotherapist, an academic, or a culturally aware citizen, Unseen City will augment and transform your experience and understanding of the societies we live in, inclusive of its lives at their margins.' Neil Altman, author of The Analyst in the Inner City