In the 1990s, in the ex-Yugoslav cultural space, psychoanalytic language was used by the Serb psychiatrist-politicians Drs Raskovic and Karadzic as conceptual justification for inter-ethnic violence. This book deals with psychoanalysis and psychiatry.
Explores how the emergence of the scientific method in the seventeenth century led to a de-emphasis on the body and sexuality. Draws on the theories of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and others who have written on the history of sexuality and the body.
This book depicts how Freud’s cocaine and Benjamin’s hashish illustrate two critiques of modernity and two messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse.
This book depicts how Freud’s cocaine and Benjamin’s hashish illustrate two critiques of modernity and two messianic emancipations through the pleasures of intoxicating discourse.