Maya Nadig

Maya Nadig (born October 16, 1946 in Tschiertschen , Switzerland) is a Swiss cultural anthropologist and ethno-psychoanalyst . She has been Professor of Ethnology and Ethnopsychoanalysis at the University of Bremen since 1991 .

Life

Nadig first studied French, German and history in Lausanne, Munich and Zurich and completed this course in Zurich as a secondary teacher. She then went on to study clinical psychology and ethnology . She did her doctorate in 1983 at the Ethnological Institute in Zurich.

She worked as a lecturer and assistant at the Ethnological Institute in Zurich and then as a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology in Frankfurt am Main . She completed her psychoanalytic training at the Psychoanalytic Seminar in Zurich and later in Bremen. Since 2009 she has been a member of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV) and the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPV).

Focus of work

The research deals with ethnopsychoanalysis, postcolonial cultural theories, migration, transculturality and identity formations in the context of globalization. She developed the ethno-psychoanalytical interpretation workshop as a method for evaluating data obtained in field research. She describes the type of conversation used in ethnopsychoanalysis as "self-reflective conversations". Her research approach is based on the work of Georges Devereux as well as Paul Parin , Goldy Parin-Matthèy and Fritz Morgenthaler , who are considered the founders of ethnopsychoanalysis. Nadig's work is also localized in the field of ethnology, psychoanalysis and feminist social science. Nadig's ethno-psychoanalytical approach is characterized by the fact that he expressly includes the subjectivity of the researcher in the investigations. To evaluate the data obtained in the field, Nadig developed the ethno-psychoanalytical interpretation workshop. For Maya Nadig, the most important source of data for the material from field research is the researcher's own experience, who observes the research process with participatory observation. The researcher's experience is analyzed in the form of unchanged diary entries and records of conversations with psychoanalytical depth hermeneutics based on the analysis of transference and countertransference, and only in a second step is it related to the cultural and economic living conditions of the researched persons. This enables psychoanalytic conclusions to be drawn about the subjective experience of these conditions and the effects on individuals.

Her work focuses primarily on cultures in Mexico, Italy, Switzerland and Germany and deals in particular with the culture and situation of women. Nadig carried out numerous comparative studies on peasant and industrialized societies. Among other things, she examined the cultural construction of the mother image among the Mayans in Yucatan .

Using comparative field research, she examined the living conditions and cultural space of women. Nadig depicts the transition to motherhood in peasant societies as a social event that is accompanied by rituals of transition and from which the father is not excluded. The work of women takes place in a subculture with independent forms of social control. According to the results of their studies, motherhood in rural societies in Mexico as well as in Switzerland increases the mobility of women within the respective subculture. In industrial societies, on the other hand, Nadig sees this transition largely as an individual work to be performed by the individual woman, whereby the woman usually loses freedom of movement through motherhood, becomes more isolated and usually depends on the husband or father of the child. At the same time, however, social role specifications would be less strongly demanded.

Nadig has been researching the Mosou in China with Wolfgang Hekele since 2010. The main focus of the investigation is the matrilineality (family relationships) of this culture.

literature

• Nadig, Maya: The hidden culture of women. Frankfurt / M .: Fischer 1986/1997
• Nadig, Maya: interculturality in the process - ethnopsychoanalysis and field research as a methodological and theoretical transition area. In: Lahme-Gronostaj, H., Leuzinger-Bohleber, M. (Ed.): Identity and difference. On the psychoanalysis of gender relations in late modernity. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2000, 87-101
• Nadig, Maya: Transculturality in Process. Theoretical and Methodological Aspects drawn from Cultural Studies and Psychoanalysis. In: Sandkühler, Hans Jörg; Lim, Hong-Bin (eds.) Transculturality, Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2004, pp. 9–21.
• Nadig, Maya: Introduction to an ethno-psychoanalytical interpretation workshop with contributions from four psychoanalysts on culture shock and chaos. Proceedings of the German Psychoanalytic Association for the autumn conference 2008 in Bad Homburg. Berlin: German Psychoanalytical Association, 2009 (proceedings, unpublished),

Web links

• Maya Nadig . In: Psychoanalysts. Biographical lexicon
• Maya Nadig in an interview with Wolfgang Hegener. In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Volume 5, No. 3, Article 36 September 2004, accessed on 19 September 2009 . 
• Maya Nadig: Body Experience in the Perception Process: Transcultural (Re) Constructions in Transitional Spaces . In: Judith Schlehe (ed.), Between cultures - between the sexes: cultural contacts and gender constructs , Waxmann, ISBN 3-89325-938-4 , 2000, pp. 37–51

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christina Kayales: Images of God by women in the Philippines: The importance of subjectivity for an intercultural hermeneutics , 1998, ISBN 3-8258-3700-9 . P. 101
2. ↑ Constanze Thierfelder : Through the mirror of others: Perception of strangeness and difference in pastoral care and counseling , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, ISBN 978-3-525-62394-7 . P. 115
3. ↑ Constanze Thierfelder: Through the mirror of others: Perception of strangeness and difference in pastoral care and counseling , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, ISBN 978-3-525-62394-7 . P. 109
4. ↑ Christina Kayales: Images of God by women in the Philippines: The importance of subjectivity for an intercultural hermeneutics , 1998, ISBN 3-8258-3700-9 . P. 86 ff.
5. ↑ Constanze Thierfelder : Through the mirror of others: Perception of strangeness and difference in pastoral care and counseling , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, ISBN 978-3-525-62394-7 . P. 110
6. ↑ People: Maya Nadig. (No longer available online.) University of Bremen, Institute for Cultural Studies, archived from the original on December 14, 2009 ; Retrieved September 19, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Leonie Herwartz-Emden: Motherhood and female self-concept: An intercultural comparative study , Juventa, 1995, ISBN 3-7799-0875-1 . P. 22
8. ↑ Constanze Thierfelder: Through the mirror of others: Perception of strangeness and difference in pastoral care and counseling , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, ISBN 978-3-525-62394-7 . P. 122 ff.