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POLITICS AND PATHOLOGIES: on the subject of race in psychoanalysis
By Gwen Bergner Bergner, G. (1999). POLITICS AND PATHOLOGIES: on the subject of race in psychoanalysis. Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives. The paper critiques the tendency to prioritize Frantz Fanon’s later work, particularly The Wretched of the Earth, over his earlier text, Black Skin, White Masks, arguing that this oversight neglects critical insights into the interconnection between Read more
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[Open Access] Trauma as Cultural Capital: A Critical Feminist Theory of Trauma Discourse. By Lucy Britt and Wilson Hammett
AbstractThis essay theorizes a problem for feminism posed by a particular form of trauma discourse.Feminists have played an important role in developing cultural and clinical conceptions of trauma, but one result of the destigmatization of trauma has been that trauma discourse is sometimes used as a form of cultural capital to reinforce existing hierarchies. In Read more
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Lynne Layton – The Social Unconscious
In this interview, hosted by Mad in America, Layton discusses social psychoanalysis. She explores how her construct of “normative unconscious processes” can illuminate how oppressive systems are continually internalized and reproduced, both inside and outside the clinic. Read more
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International Online Conference: Radical Listening: Collective Practices, Histories and Possible Futures (Free Admission)
International Online Conference, Monday 14 & Saturday 19 July 2025 (Organised by the FREEPSY collective) About this event Can ‘listening’ foster new forms of relationality in a collapsing world? What forms, formats, rituals and infrastructures of listening to one another have made life liveable, enjoyable or, simply, possible in recent times? This online event brings Read more
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The Stoop Can Also Be a Couch: A Psychoanalytic Manifesto. By: Maria Verónica Laguna, LCSW
This manifesto introduces psychoanalytic thinkers and projects from around the world that have been “othered,” bringing psychoanalysis beyond the couch and into the streets. I believe that psychoanalysis must step out of the office and onto the stoop, to meet and engage with “neighbors”—theories, paradigms, and approaches that allow it to fulfill its own values. Read more
Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 