The lasting impact of colonial trauma in India: Links to Hindu nationalism

Abstract

Hindu supremacist ideology and Hindu nationalism are recently resurgent in India's far‐right government. This ideology has manifested itself in increased religious intolerance and human rights violations, including escalating oppression of religious and other minorities, journalists, civil rights advocates, and others. Using psychoanalytic theories of social trauma, groups, and prejudice, I link present‐day disturbances to the profound social trauma engendered by the colonial occupation of India by the British in multiple forms for nearly 200 years.

A living archive of the oppressed: Revisiting Taiwan's authoritarian past through Freud's “The Ego and the Id”

“…Through this investigation, attention is drawn to the intricate ways in which the “historical” fathers of Taiwan, who embodied unmistakably authoritarian personas, have significantly shaped the collective (un)consciousness of Taiwan and Taiwanese identity. It contributes to knowledge by venturing two points of disruption: Firstly, it aligns with the strand of activist scholarship linking psychoanalysis and social justice, disrupting conventional frameworks of analysis which tend to individualize and “domesticate” psychological symptoms (e.g., Auestad, 2013; Fang, 2020; Ffytche & Pick, 2016; Kerr, 2024; Krüger et al., 2018; Rao, 2021; Rolnik, 2023; Williams, 2021). It seeks to disrupt what Parker (2018) refers to as “the trap that many forms of psychoanalysis fell into,” which tends to “idealize the family […] so that the attempts to describe the ‘unconscious’ as something beyond awareness also had the effect of familialising it” (p. 249; italics original).…”