![]() ![]() Still, while his grasp on it is tight, repression is not the sole domain of Freud. Because it rings so loudly with the white noise of European culture, repression analysis risks writing over Indigenous voices even as it attempts to forefront those experiences. To begin from the assumption that psychoanalysis always can be smoothly immigrated into an Indigenous text is an act of literatura nullius, an erroneous belief that a given book is not populated with its own systems of knowledge and hermeneutics. ![]() The baggage it carries, from Christianity, from the Enlightenment, but most of all from Sigmund Freud, immediately raises hackles. "Repression" can be a dangerous word in Indigenous literary criticism. You don't have to be scared of things you don't understand. ![]()
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