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Oceania and the Pacific Islands

Joy Damousi. Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press. 2005. Pp. x, 374. $49.95.
Joy Damousi's book gives a comprehensive account of the development of psychoanalysis in Australia throughout the twentieth century. The narrative focuses on two processes: the gradual but limited emergence of psychoanalysis as an independent profession, and the uneven but wider diffusion of Freudian intellectual influence within various cultural and professional worlds. Psychoanalysis in Australia survived chiefly along the latter path, demonstrating both the virtues and pitfalls of intellectual eclecticism. Damousi emphasizes that throughout Australian society efforts to reconceptualize the self allowed psychoanalysis to gain footholds in several spheres of life. Preserving those footholds, however, remained a difficult task, with fluctuating success.	1
Damousi describes well the contrast between the narrow growth of the psychoanalytic profession in Australia and the more widespread incorporation of Freudian ideas within the culture at large. Formal analytic training in Australia did not begin until after 1940, under the nearly exclusive guidance of the émigré Hungarian analyst, Clara Lazar-Geroe. In the 1960s Australian psychoanalysts themselves began to train future practitioners, but by 1964 Australia still had only eight licensed analysts. That number did not increase significantly until the 1970s with the immigration of British and Argentinean therapists. Damousi persuasively explains that despite the small numbers, significant encounters occurred among Freudian, Kleinian, and Lacanian views. In fact, in Melbourne, Argentinean psychoanalysts created the first school in the English-speaking world dedicated to Lacanian analysis.	. . .

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