Imagining Africa in Eastern Europe: Transcultural Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in Cold War Yugoslavia
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Imagining Africa in Eastern Europe : Transcultural Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in Cold War Yugoslavia. / Antic, Ana.
In: Contemporary European History, Vol. 28, No. 2, 05.2019, p. 234-251.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Imagining Africa in Eastern Europe
T2 - Transcultural Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in Cold War Yugoslavia
AU - Antic, Ana
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - This article seeks to write Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe into the history of post-Second World War global psychiatry and to explore the significance of Marxist psychiatry in an international context. It traces Yugoslav psychiatrists' transnational and interdisciplinary engagements as they peaked in the 1960s. Focusing on the distinguished Belgrade psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Vladimir Jakovljevic (1925-68), it looks at Yugoslav psychiatry's clinical and anthropological research in the global South to shed light on its contributions to Western-dominated transcultural psychiatry. Through this lens the article also explores how Eastern Europe's intellectuals engaged with decolonisation and the notions of race, 'primitivism' and modernity. Jakovljevic's involvement in transcultural psychiatry demonstrated the inherent contradiction of Eastern European Marxist psychiatry: its dubiously colonial 'civilising mission' towards the subalterns in its own populations and its progressive, emancipatory agenda. Jakovljevic's writings about Africa ultimately turned into an unprecedented opportunity to shed light on some glaring internal inconsistencies from Yugoslavia's own socio-political context.
AB - This article seeks to write Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe into the history of post-Second World War global psychiatry and to explore the significance of Marxist psychiatry in an international context. It traces Yugoslav psychiatrists' transnational and interdisciplinary engagements as they peaked in the 1960s. Focusing on the distinguished Belgrade psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Vladimir Jakovljevic (1925-68), it looks at Yugoslav psychiatry's clinical and anthropological research in the global South to shed light on its contributions to Western-dominated transcultural psychiatry. Through this lens the article also explores how Eastern Europe's intellectuals engaged with decolonisation and the notions of race, 'primitivism' and modernity. Jakovljevic's involvement in transcultural psychiatry demonstrated the inherent contradiction of Eastern European Marxist psychiatry: its dubiously colonial 'civilising mission' towards the subalterns in its own populations and its progressive, emancipatory agenda. Jakovljevic's writings about Africa ultimately turned into an unprecedented opportunity to shed light on some glaring internal inconsistencies from Yugoslavia's own socio-political context.
KW - COMMUNISM
KW - GUINEA
U2 - 10.1017/S0960777318000541
DO - 10.1017/S0960777318000541
M3 - Journal article
VL - 28
SP - 234
EP - 251
JO - Contemporary European History
JF - Contemporary European History
SN - 0960-7773
IS - 2
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