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  • [Free Download] Hook, D. (2020). Fanon via Lacan, or: Decolonization by Psychoanalytic Means … ? 

    [Free Download] Hook, D. (2020). Fanon via Lacan, or: Decolonization by Psychoanalytic Means … ? 

    ABSTRACT Lacanian psychoanalysis is often considered antithetical to Frantz Fanon’s decolonizing political project. This paper argues, by contrast, that by exploring hitherto under-explored aspects of the Fanon-Lacan relation we are able to re-articulate many of Fanon’s most crucial political insights. The paper adopts three routes of enquiry. Firstly, it investigates Fanon’s earliest citations of Lacan,… Read more

  • Book: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism: A Contemporary Introduction

    Book: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism: A Contemporary Introduction

    ISBN 9780367477677 138 Pages Published September 23, 2022 by Routledge Description Within this important and insightful book, Sally Swartz introduces readers to early entanglements of psychoanalytic theory with colonialism and how it has led to significant and long-lasting implications for psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis and Colonialism is unique in drawing together a wide array of sources and a span… Read more

  • Jack black on the Psychosis of Race: A Lacanian Approach. Rendering Unconscious Podcast.

    Jack black on the Psychosis of Race: A Lacanian Approach. Rendering Unconscious Podcast.

    Jack Black is Associate Professor of Culture, Media, and Sport at Sheffield Hallam University and affiliated with the Centre for Culture, Media and Society, where he is Research Lead for the ‘Anti-Racism Research Group’. An interdisciplinary researcher, working within psychoanalysis, media, and cultural studies, Jack is the author of Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy: A… Read more

  • What Psychoanalysis can Teach us about the US Election. Article by: Rafael Holmberg

    Originally published in Everyday Analysis on January 4, 2025 Since Trump’s election victory, it is tempting to think that we need to understand politics ‘by itself’ – that is, without the mediation of any speculative explorations or the insights of other disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, sociology etc, which we often apply to politics to… Read more

  • Psychology as Apparatus. Book chapter by: Derek Hook and Sam Pinkley [Free Download]

    Psychology as Apparatus. Book chapter by: Derek Hook and Sam Pinkley [Free Download]

    An Interview with Sam Binkley Interviewed by Derek Hook ABSTRACT  In this interview, Sam Binkley, using Michael Foucault’s (2008) constructivist view of neoliberalism. He outlines how subjectivity gets produced in the contemporary context of neoliberal logic with a particular emphasis on the discursive effects. Binkley and Hook discuss how selves are constructed in a cultural/political… Read more

  • Book: Decolonial Psychoanalysis:Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies by Robert Beshara

    Book: Decolonial Psychoanalysis:Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies by Robert Beshara

    ISBN 9780367174132 174 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations Published March 19, 2019 by Routledge Description In this provocative and necessary book, Robert K. Beshara uses psychoanalytic discursive analysis to explore the possibility of a genuinely anti-colonial critical psychology. Drawing on postcolonial and decolonial approaches to Islamophobia, this book enhances understandings of Critical Border Thinking and Lacanian Discourse… Read more

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