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Decolonization and Psychoanalysis - Ahmad Fuad Rahmat

Decolonization and Psychoanalysis

The Underside of Signification
Buch | Softcover
246 Seiten
2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-48219-4 (ISBN)
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Decolonization and Psychoanalysis challenges traditional psychoanalytic frameworks by revisiting Lacan’s conceptualization of the materiality of speech through a decolonial lens.

Ahmad Fuad Rahmat explores how Lacan’s ideas about the symbolic order and its historical development are intertwined with colonial assumptions, and proposes that rethinking these assumptions can pave the way for a decolonial psychoanalysis. The book explores how Lacan uses Freud’s Jewishness as a marginalized perspective that reveals the excluded dimensions of signification within the symbolic order, and examines James Joyce's anti-colonial politics and its significance for Lacan’s conception of the sinthome. The critique extends to Slavoj Žižek’s Eurocentric readings of Malcolm X as a foil with which colonized speech could be conceived as ‘symbolic dispossession.’ Finally, it reframes the gap by understanding global capitalism as a mode of exchange to advocate for a decolonial psychoanalysis that focuses on the gaps and 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 academics and scholars of psychoanalytic studies, critical theory and cultural studies.

Ahmad Fuad Rahmat is assistant professor of Media and Digital Cultures at Nottingham University in Malaysia. He is a member of the Centre for Lacan Analysis New Zealand and his work has been published in a wide variety of journals.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.4.2025
Reihe/Serie The Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis Series
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-032-48219-2 / 1032482192
ISBN-13 978-1-032-48219-4 / 9781032482194
Zustand Neuware
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