Decolonization and Psychoanalysis

Auteur

Ahmad Fuad Rahmat is assistant professor of Media and Digital Cultures at Nottingham University in Malaysia. His work has been published in a wide variety of journals.

Texte du rabat

Decolonization and Psychoanalysis challenges traditional psychoanalytic frameworks by revisiting Lacan's conceptualization of the materiality of speech through a decolonial lens.

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Series editor preface

Introduction: The materiality of language and the politics of the untranslatable

Chapter 1: The unconscious is structured like the unlanguaged: The colonized and the traces of signification

Chapter 2: Transmission or defamiliarization? Savoir-faire and the two impossibilities in Lacan's decolonial unconscious

Chapter 3: 'Turn to Allah, Pray to the East:' Malcolm X and symbolic dispossession

Chapter 4: Where do gaps come from? Psychoanalysis in non-spaces

Conclusion.