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Bassel Al-Araj
Capitalism
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Collective psyche
Counterinsurgency
Critical theory
Decolonial Psychoanalysis
Desire
Desire and power
Despecializing Psychoanalysis
Dreams and resistance
Edward Bernays
Emancipation
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Fanonian Psychoanalysis
fascism
Frantz Fanon
Freud
Future Conditional
Ghassan Kanafani
Ideology
Institutionalized Psychoanalysis Critique
Lacan
Liberation
Liberation Psychology
Neoliberalism
Orisanmi Burton
Palestine in Psychoanalysis
Political subjectivity
Political therapy
Psychic Intrusions
Psychic Inversions
Psychic Militancy
Psycho-politico-affective
psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic Innocence
Psychological Operations (PSYOPS)
Radical Psychoanalysis
Radical theory
Repetition Compulsion in Politics
Repression
Resistance
revolution
Revolutionary praxis
Seized Psychoanalysis
Settler Colonial Reality Bending
Social transformation
Stephen Sheehi
Subject formation
The Clinic vs The Streets
The Precondition of Liberation
The unconscious
Trauma and politics
Traumatophillia
Walid Daqqa
Zionism and Psychoanalysis
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- ISBN 9780745350059
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 20 May 2026
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Psychoanalysis is having a resurgence in popularity—but it is not helping patients navigate the harm of modern-day capitalism. Instead, it continues to enforce oppressive structures, state power, and reactionary politics.
Practising psychoanalytic clinician Lara Sheehi creates a thrilling argument for how seizing the means of psychoanalysis can transform it into one of many tools in service of revolution, showing how psychoanalysis can help unpack how psychological and emotional processes are mobilized by political power, capitalism, the state, oppression, and even genocide.
Arguing for a new, liberatory psychoanalysis, she calls for us to harness its radical power from the clinic to the streets.
Lara Sheehi is a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa's Institute for Social and Health Sciences, a licensed clinical psychologist, and the host of the Psychic Militancy podcast. Lara’s work focuses on psychoanalysis, the psychic refusals central to liberation struggles and life-making in the Global South, the psychic dimensions of resistance and revolution, and critical Zionism studies. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is a member of the founding collective for the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism and is on the advisory board for Forensic Architecture.
