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Xenophobia and Migrant Perceptions in Uruguay: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Yesterday I had the opportunity to share my doctoral research project on La Diaria Radio in Uruguay. In this interview, I discussed how my work will explore the intersections between phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and migration, focusing on attitudes from the host culture and the lived experiences of migrants in Uruguay. (English subs are auto-generated) I’d love… Read more
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New Research Article: Beckwith, K. (2026) Beyond the Room: Psychoanalysis, Freedom, and the Defense of Childhood in Authoritarian Times.
ABSTRACT Psychoanalysis has always wrestled with the tension between freedom and authority. Yet its practice has often been confined to bounded rooms where movement, play, and spontaneity are constrained. This paper calls for a renewal of psychoanalysis through the integration of hybrid settings in child and adolescent therapy, where risk, play, and freedom can fully… Read more
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Interview with Dr. Derek Hook: Fanon, Psychoanalysis, and Critical Decolonial Psychology
What explains the “madness” of Race? Its excessive and violent intensities? Its tenacious persistence beyond the economic interests of the ruling class? Any serious analysis of Race must take into account its contradictory, libidinal, and bodily aspects (in addition to discursive and economic analysis). To this end, Dr. Hook takes his readers and us on… Read more
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September 18- Therapy and Social Change Network Seminar: Internalized Oppression Inside and Outside the Consulting Room – Maria Veronica Laguna
About This Event This workshop will examine the subjective and sociopolitical effects of internalized oppression and identification with the aggressor, focusing on how these dynamics manifest both within and beyond the consulting room. Drawing on Sándor Ferenczi’s work on trauma and dissociation, we will explore how survivors of abuse internalize conflicting realities, often resorting to… Read more
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Oct. 17 and 18, 2026 TransPollinations: P-HOLE’s first Counter-Conference
The Psychoanalytic Hub for Online Liberatory (also known as P-HOLE) is proud to announce its first in-person educational event: TransPollinations: Putting Psychoanalysis to Work—A Counter-Conference. TransPollinations is P-HOLE’s first Counter-Conference, explicitly offered as a counter to a “professional development event” being mounted in New York City by Therapy First, which many consider to be a trans-skeptical,… Read more
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World of the Third and Hegemonic Capital: Between Marx and Freud By Anjan Chakrabarti and Anup Dhar (2023)
About this book This book brings together Marxian philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis to argue that the hegemonic form of global capital is founded on the foreclosure of class and world of the third. The authors counterpose the world of the third to the mainstream notion of the third world, seen as a lacking other in… Read more
Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 