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003			OSt
020			_a9781316517581
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a809.933556 _bM896u
100			_aMukherjee Ankhi
245			_aUnseen city _bthe psychic lives of the urban poor _cAnkhi Mukherjee
260			_aCambridge _bCambridge University Press _c2022
300			_axiv, 263p
440			_aCambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture
490			_a / edited by Peter Boxall
520			_aIn Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, Ankhi Mukherjee offers a magisterial work of literary and cultural criticism which examines the relationship between global cities, poverty, and psychoanalysis. Spanning three continents, this hugely ambitious book reads fictional representations of poverty with each city's psychoanalytic and psychiatric culture, particularly as that culture is fostered by state policies toward the welfare needs of impoverished populations. It explores the causal relationship between precarity and mental health through clinical case studies, the product of extensive collaborations and knowledge-sharing with community psychotherapeutic initiatives in six global cities. These are layered with twentieth- and twenty-first-century works of world literature that explore issues of identity, illness, and death at the intersections of class, race, globalisation, and migrancy. In Unseen City, Mukherjee argues that a humanistic and imaginative engagement with the psychic lives of the dispossessed is key to an adapted psychoanalysis for the poor, and that seeking equity of the unconscious is key to poverty alleviation. Combines literary criticism with psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, the history of medicine, anthropology, and urban studies Uses literature and case studies alike to capture not only the maladies but the psychic life of the urban poor, with its unrecorded acts of survivalism, resilience, and capability This study is built on knowledge-sharing and collaborations across critical and clinical fields
650			_aPoverty in literature
650			_aLiterature, Modern
650			_aPsychiatric clinics -- Sociological aspects
650			_aPsychoanalysis and literature
650			_aCity and town life in literature
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