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Book SynopsisDecolonization and Psychoanalysis challenges conventional psychoanalytic assumptions by revisiting Lacanâs conceptualization of the materiality of speech through a decolonial lens.
Ahmad Fuad Rahmat explores how Lacanâs ideas about the symbolic order and its historical development are intertwined with decolonial assumptions, and proposes that critically considering these assumptions can pave the way for a decolonial psychoanalysis. The book begins with how Lacan uses Freudâs Jewishness as a marginalized perspective that reveals the excluded dimensions of signification within the symbolic order, and examines James Joyceâs anti-colonial politics and its significance for Lacanâs conception of the sinthome. The book includes a critique of Slavoj ÅiÅekâs Eurocentric reading of Malcolm X as a foil with which colonized speech could be conceived as âœsymbolic dispossessionâ. Finally, it reframes the notion of âœthe gapâ by understanding global capitalism as a mode of exchange to advocate for a decolonial psychoanalysis that focuses on the non-spaces of transmission as opposed to a like-for-like export of the clinic from the center to the periphery.
Decolonization and Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and to scholars of psychoanalytic studies, critical theory, and cultural studies.
