Psychoanalytic Ecology applies Freudian concepts, beginning with the uncanny, to environmental issues, such as wetlands and their loss, to alligators and crocodiles as inhabitants of wetlands, and to the urban underside. It also applies other Freudian concepts, such as sublimation, symptom, mourning and melancholia, to environmental issues and concerns. Mourning and melancholia can be experienced in relation to wetlands and to their loss. The city is a symptom of the will to fill or drain wetlands.

Rod Giblett is Honorary Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of many books in the environmental humanities, including People and Places of Nature and Culture (2011) and most recently, Environmental Humanities and Theologies (2018), and is a pioneer in psychoanalytic ecology.

Acknowledgements

1. Psychoanalytic Ecology and the Uncanny
2. Mourning, Melancholy and Marshes
3. Alligators, Crocodiles and the Uncanny
4. The Uncanny Urban Underside
5. Mining and Anal Sadism
6. Pastoralism and Oral Sadism
7. Psycho-Symbiosis and the Symbiocene

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