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Book SynopsisIs psychoanalysis too White and upper class to be relevant to social and racial justice? Are its ideas and practices too alien for people of color? Can it shed light on why systems of oppression are so stable, and how oppression becomes internalized? In A People's History of Psychoanalysis, the author reviews the oft-forgotten history of social justice in psychoanalysis, showing how Freud and the first generation of psychoanalysts developed a way of thinking about racial and economic inequality that informed later movements for Black and Latin American liberation. He traces a series of interpersonal and intellectual relationships between psychoanalysis and Black anti-Racist and post-colonial struggle culminating in the work of Frantz Fanon; Afro-Latinx and Latin American thinkers fighting anti-Blackness and capitalist exploitation which inspired Paulo Freire's theory of critical consciousness; and Spanish psychiatrists and psychologists resisting fascism and inequality from Spain to El
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction: “A Recovery of Historical Memory”: Old Questions and New Horizons Chapter 1: “A Tool to Achieve Power”—Colonialism, Anti-Blackness, and Anti-Semitism Chapter 2: “A Sort of Inner Revolution”—Freud, Ferenczi, Fenichel, and Fromm Chapter 3: “For Justice, For Equal Treatment for All”—Freud as Proto-Postcolonial Theorist Chapter 4: “The Possibility of Love”—Black Psychoanalysis from Harlem to Algeria Chapter 5: “A Loving Encounter of People”—Freud, Marx, Freire and the Afro-Latinx Origins of Concientizacao Chapter 6: “To Recognize Ourselves in Our Reality”—Liberation Psychology as Political Mentalization Conclusion: “A Preferential Option” Bibliography Index About the Author
