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(2011). Psychoanalysis and History, 13:227-243

Postcolonial Freud: Psychoanalysis in the French Antilles

Nicole Simek

Freud's place within postcolonial criticism, and his influence on postcolonial literatures more generally, can hardly be considered clear. The reputation of psychoanalysis in postcolonial circles as a Eurocentric discipline born of Western preoccupations with individualism, nuclear family dynamics and male-centred theories of sexuality has both spurred and shaped postcolonial inquiries into Freud's work and its legacy; at the same time, few critics deny the complexity of Freud's thought, the radical rethinking of identity that he accomplished, his contributions to a study of language as a system of signs operating outside the subject's full, conscious control and the avenues for further critique that his work opened up. The title of this article, ‘Postcolonial Freud’, gestures in part to this critical history - to the varied reception Freud has received in postcolonial criticism. The ambiguity of the term ‘postcolonial’ as a description of Freud also seems par

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