Expectations: Great or small? Reflections on the role of psychoanalysis in cultural studies

Jürgen Kramer is Professor Emeritus of British Cultural Studies, Department of British and American Studies at Dortmund University. His main research areas have included the history of the British Isles and the British Empire, the sea as a cultural space, transatlantic slavery, the literature of the Pacific, cultural memory, anti-colonial resistance and the works of Joseph Conrad and Robert Louis Stevenson. Among his publications are Cultural and Intercultural Studies (Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 1990), British Cultural Studies (Munich: Fink, 1997), Britain and Ireland. A Concise History (London/New York: Routledge, 2007) and Taking Stock (Tübingen: Narr, 2011). From 1994 to 2006, he co-edited the Journal for the Study of British Cultures.