Diana Caine – författare

Mothering in the Colonies uses a psychoanalytic lens to consider the ubiquitous, but little acknowledged or spoken, relationship between settler colonial children and colonised/indentured/slave-descended women, and the way in which it inaugurated racial identity.Diana Caine explores this relationship through seven images depicting children and caregivers in different contexts including Brazil, Mexico, India, Australia and South Africa. With reference to Freud and Lacan, Caine considers how this relationship at the heart of coloniality was impelled by socio-political and economic demands that collided with overt and covert interdictions against inter-racial intimacy.Mothering in the Colonies will be of interest to psychoanalysts and historians of psychoanalysis, and to scholars and students of postcolonial and decolonial studies, race, imperial and colonial history and the history and politics of motherhood. It will also interest a more general readership.

Mothering in the Colonies uses a psychoanalytic lens to consider the ubiquitous, but little acknowledged or spoken, relationship between settler colonial children and colonised/indentured/slave-descended women, and the way in which it inaugurated racial identity.Diana Caine explores this relationship through seven images depicting children and caregivers in different contexts including Brazil, Mexico, India, Australia and South Africa. With reference to Freud and Lacan, Caine considers how this relationship at the heart of coloniality was impelled by socio-political and economic demands that collided with overt and covert interdictions against inter-racial intimacy.Mothering in the Colonies will be of interest to psychoanalysts and historians of psychoanalysis, and to scholars and students of postcolonial and decolonial studies, race, imperial and colonial history and the history and politics of motherhood. It will also interest a more general readership.

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion of ‘perversion’, which has undergone numerous profound changes in recent years. The book explores a wide range of issues, from changes in the psychoanalytic clinic, to transformations in the relationship between ‘transgression’ and the law; from the epistemic and diagnostic status of ‘perversion’ as a term, to the perverse turn in contemporary politics; from representations of perversion in cultural productions, to the interpretation of perverse cultural practices. Topical and controversial, academics and students of psychoanalysis, critical and cultural theory, and media studies will find this collection invaluable. In providing cutting edge theoretical debate, the book will also be attractive to practising and training psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion of ‘perversion’, which has undergone numerous profound changes in recent years. The book explores a wide range of issues, from changes in the psychoanalytic clinic, to transformations in the relationship between ‘transgression’ and the law; from the epistemic and diagnostic status of ‘perversion’ as a term, to the perverse turn in contemporary politics; from representations of perversion in cultural productions, to the interpretation of perverse cultural practices. Topical and controversial, academics and students of psychoanalysis, critical and cultural theory, and media studies will find this collection invaluable. In providing cutting edge theoretical debate, the book will also be attractive to practising and training psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists.