Much has been written about migration from a historic, economic and social perspective, but little has been written about it from a psychiatric or psychoanalytic point of view. Through the work of Frantz Fanon, BJF Laubscher and Wulf Sachs (psychoanalyst), Busetto explores philosophical and ethical problems, such as the relationship between the individual and society, culture and mental illness and the fraught question of race and difference.
1. Introduction
2. Psychiatry, psychoanalysis and anthropology
3. Freud and Africa
4. Migrant workers, the Night Trains, the Madman and the Migrant, Stimela and Masekela.
5. Laubscher’s archive. The Eastern Cape in South Africa and the Komani Mental Hospital. Returning migrants.
6. Sachs and Black Hamlet. Weskoppies hospital. The dreams of the patients.
7. Fanon and the North-African syndrome.
8. Conclusions
