Celia Britton

Freud is often accused of eurocentrism—of making unjustifiable generalisations on the basis of European family structures. Although French Caribbean intellectuals such as Fanon, Césaire and Glissant have joined in these criticisms, they have also made strikingly positive use of psychoanalysis. Much intellectual energy has been invested in notions of repression, the Oedipus complex and the psychoanalytic cure, while at the...