Bhabha Among the Clinicians: Introduction

Abstract

In this introduction I propose the value of reading Homi Bhabha's Location of Culture (1994) for its clinical and theoretical insights and utility for psychoanalysts. I look at how Bhabha's work influences my own thinking about development, about nostalgia and loss, about hybridity, and about cultural alienation and resistance. I introduce 6 essays which examine questions of migration; trauma; intergenerational transmission of loss and exile; and matters of gender inside and outside the canonical, cultural context drawing for their inspiration and influence from Homi Bhabha's work.