book chapter
The Whites think too much: psychoanalytic investigations among the Dogon in West Africa
Atlantis Verlag • Zurich • Published In 1963 • Pages:
By: Parin, Paul, Morgenthaler, Fritz, Parin-Matthey, Goldy, Schütze, Frieda.
Abstract
This work is a psychoanalytical analysis of Dogon personality made on the basis of conversations with French-speaking informants and the subsequent interpretations of their responses to the standardized Rorschach “ink blot” test. Informants were selected from the Sanga village group as representative of the traditional Dogon culture. All were bi-lingual in French and Dogon. In the initial stage of the field work one-hour paid conversations were arranged with the informants in which rapport was established between the author/analyst and his subjects, and general background life history information obtained. These conversations occupy the major part of this source, pp. 70-368. This is followed by a more intensive psychoanalysis of thirteen selected informants, and a briefer analysis on one hundred individuals on the basis of their responses on the Rorschach cards. The author concludes with a generalized psychological profile of the Dogon in terms of modern psychoanalytical theory.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Western Africa
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Psychologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1987
- Field Date
- 1960
- Coverage Date
- 1960
- Coverage Place
- Sanga, Bandiagara Circle, Mopti Region, Mali
- Notes
- By Paul Parin, Fritz Morgenthaler and Goldy Parin-Matthey
- Translation of: Die Weissen denken zuviel; Psychoanalytische Untersuchungen bei den Dogon in Westafrika
- The original German text is not included
- Because of poor quality, many graphics are not included
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 545-550)
- Translated for the HRAF files by Frieda Schütze
- LCCN
- 63048924
- LCSH
- Dogons (African people)