{"product_id":"from-the-clinic-to-the-streets","title":"From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnleashing the revolutionary politics of psychoanalysis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePsychoanalysis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePractising 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArguing for a new, liberatory psychoanalysis, she calls for us to harness its radical power from the clinic to the streets. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLara 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 \u003cem\u003ePsychic Militancy\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003ePsychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lara Sheehi cultivates a radically activated recognition of the conditions of colonial war as a state of intimate endangerment. From here, the liberationist mandate to nurture psychic militancy is both a prerequisite and an ongoing practice of refusing the settler state’s genocidal normalcy. Read this book, absorb its implications, and prepare to determine what comes next.\" Dylan Rodríguez, Distinguished Professor, University of California at Riverside\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Let’s get right to it: upholding the split between the intrapsychic and sociopolitical reproduces the violence of power. As an antidote, read, embrace and enact the lessons of Lara Sheehi’s testimony of radical love offered in service of transformation. Understand how her theorisation of psychic intrusion transforms into psychic militancy and how this enriches our armoury as we battle the relations of rule in these times of genocide, ongoing settler colonialism and techno-fascism.\"\u003c\/span\u003e Gail Lewis, Visiting Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"This astonishing, innovative and militant book seizes psychoanalysis and, with Fanonian urgency in times of genocide, puts it to work, for us instead of against us; Sheehi shows us how to radically repeat our resistance to power.\"\u003c\/span\u003e Ian Parker, The Red Clinic and co-author of \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalysis and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"What if no one sided with colonialism? Are you and your comrades equipped with the clarity required to truly hold the line? In a moment queasily rife with counterinsurgent literary misappropriations of Fanonian psychoanalysis, this book embodies a despecialized psychoanalytic praxis of revolutionary anticolonialism that is genuinely worthy of the name ‘Fanon.’ Blazing with militant clarity, Lara Sheehi lays her finger directly on the myriad ‘intrusions’ designed to thwart, confuse, pacify, and derail internationalist resistance to imperial barbarism at the level of our very interiority. Here is a book that mounts the barricades, and compels us to wholeheartedly struggle, alongside its author, for real planetary liberation and a life worth living.\"\u003c\/span\u003e Sophie Lewis, author of \u003ci\u003eAbolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Sheehi deftly illuminates the mechanics of psychological warfare and provides a political vocabulary, indeed a methodology for how we can protect our minds against intrusion of depraved colonial mythologies. An invaluable text for our times.\"\u003c\/span\u003e Orisanmi Burton, author of \u003ci\u003eTip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Like the manuals that circulate amongst militants, teaching us how to build barricades, avoid teargas or hide IP addresses, this book treats psychoanalysis as a daily political practice of counter-repetition, a tool that can help us resist the colonization of the psyche by reactionary forces. An amazing book that takes us from the de-specialization of the practice, away from the elites, to its political reskilling.\"\u003c\/span\u003e Gabriel Tupinambá, psychoanalyst and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Desire of Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A waterfall of insurgent thinking, this book sets the direction in which revolutionary theorizing will be moving in the years to come. In resolute and deft moves, Sheehi’s willful text cuts open psychoanalytic shibboleths (repair, dialogue, politesse) so we can see for ourselves the counterinsurgencies innervating them. Her radical and unflinching investigation unbendingly centers Palestine to reveal how we are deskilled and psychically intruded, made to feel exhausted, fearful, confused, and despairing. But Sheehi also teaches us how psychoanalysis can re-skill us, arming us with a psychic militancy that can bring the seductions that Zionist, fascist, and colonial logics exert on us to a screeching halt. Sheehi writes for nothing less than to re-arrange the terms by which we relate to the world.\"\u003c\/span\u003e Avgi Saketopoulou, psychoanalyst, author of \u003ci\u003eSexuality Beyond Consent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"This is psychoanalysis reanimated by fierce love and an abolitionist spirit. Rather than turning away from the ways psychoanalysis has been used to stabilise and serve power, Sheehi carefully sets out this history as the ground from which liberatory work can emerge. Fiercely loving, historically grounded, and practical, this book offers intellectual and ethical companionship to practitioners, students, and educators seeking transformative futures. This is psychic militancy by example—in thought, language, and action. This book is a timely reminder that the question of what psychoanalysis is for is not only unsettled, but re-imaginable, and in our hands.\"\u003c\/span\u003e Foluke Taylor, author of \u003ci\u003eUnruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures\u003cbr\u003e1. Warfare Psychologically Waged\u003cbr\u003e2. Psychic Intrusions\u003cbr\u003e3. Reskilling Ourselves: Identifying the Psycho-Politico-Affective at Work\u003cbr\u003e4. Psychic Militancy\u003cbr\u003e5. Affirmations for Psychic Militancy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44517752864861,"sku":"9780745350059","price":32.13,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9780745350059.jpg?v=1781210966","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/from-the-clinic-to-the-streets","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}