Autore: Carofalo, Viola
Titolo: Il crepuscolo degli dei. Strategie di sopravvivenza dei soggetti subalterni in Georges Devereux
Periodico: Iride
Anno: 2015 - Volume: 76 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 643 - Pagina finale: 658

The aim of the reflection of Georges Devereux is the establishment of a therapeutic practice in the ethnopsychiatric field. This article shows in which way Devereux adopts this principle to the studies about mental illness suffered by Plains Indian during the mid-fifties, using his anthropological and psychoanalytical skills. Starting from the case of Jimmy Picard - the main character of the famous essay "Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" -, Devereux illustrates the different psychic reactions of the subjects who live a subordinate condition, which was determined by colonization or other forms of economic, social, racial, linguistic, and cultural dominance; this underlines how the complete acceptance of a collective model (imposed or self-imposed) can cause the destruction of individuality.




SICI: 1122-7893(2015)76:3<643:ICDDSD>2.0.ZU;2-B
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.1414/81580
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