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Introduction: “The Poverty of Philosophy” – A Critique of Psychoanalytic Knowledge and Power

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2021

Ankhi Mukherjee
Ankhi Mukherjee
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University of Oxford
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Introduction to the research claims and objectives of the work as a whole, paying attention to the fraught relationship between psychoanalysis, race, and poverty. A historical outline of the Freudian free clinic movement is used to examine the viability of an adapted psychoanalysis, with its components of free or low-fee therapy, community outreach, lay counselors, etc.

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MarxFreudfree clinic phenomenonpoverty and mental illnessraceglobal citiesLatife Tekin
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Unseen City
The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor
 , pp. 1 - 32
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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