Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography
Jadran Mimica

Chapter 1. Culture and Psychoanalysis: A Personal Journey
Sudhir Kakar

Chapter 2. Aspects of the Naven Ritual: Conversations with an Iatmul Woman of Papua New Guinea
Florence Weiss and Milan Stanek

Chapter 3. Descended from the Celestial Rope: From the Father to the Son, and from the Ego to the Cosmic Self
Jadran Mimica

Chapter 4. To Dream, Perchance to Cure: Dreaming and Shamanism in a Brazilian Indigenous Society
Waud H. Kracke

Chapter 5. A Psychoanalytic Revisiting of Fieldwork and Intercultural Borderlinking
René Devisch

Chapter 6. On Tjukurrpa, Painting Up, and Building Thought
Craig San Roque

Chapter 7. A Cartography of Mental Health
Renata Volich Eisenbruch

Chapter 8. Psychotic Group Text: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into the Production of Moral Conscience
James M. Glass

Chapter 9. 204 Interpreting Numinous Experiences
Dan Merkur

Chapter 10. The Religion of Psychoanalysis, or Ode to a Nightingale
Shahid Najeeb

Subject Index
Names Index

About the Author

Jadran Mimica lectures in Anthropology at the University of Sydney.