From The Clinic To The Streets (psychoanalysis For Revolutionary Futures)

Unleashing the revolutionary politics of psychoanalysis

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.

Introduction: From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures
1. Warfare Psychologically Waged
2. Psychic Intrusions
3. Reskilling Ourselves: Identifying the Psycho-Politico-Affective at Work
4. Psychic Militancy
5. Affirmations for Psychic Militancy

''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''

''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.''

''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.''

''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.''

''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''

''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