Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis

这个项目将挑战一种观点，即澳大利亚知识分子更关心民族主义和社会进步，他们抵制关于内心生活的想法。它还将检验这样一种假设，即在强调忏悔的过程中，精神分析学在20世纪早期生根发芽，当时私人领域和公共领域之间的界限正变得越来越模糊。结果将是第一个在精神分析的背景下探索澳大利亚亲密生活的研究。它将通过提供对坚持情感重要性的澳大利亚民族认同的新理解，对文化史做出开创性的贡献。

This project will challenge the argument that Australian intellectuals, more concerned with nationalism and social progress, have resisted ideas about inner life. It will also test the hypothesis that in emphasising the confessional, psychoanalysis took root during the early twentieth century when the boundaries between private and public spheres were becoming increasingly blurred. The outcome will be the first study to explore ideas about intimate life in Australia within the context of psychoanalysis. It will make a ground-breaking contribution to cultural history by offering a new understanding of Australian national identity, which insists on the importance of emotions.