From the Clinic to the Streets

Psychoanalysis is experiencing a resurgence in popularity; however, it is not aiding patients in navigating the harm of modern-day capitalism. Instead, it continues to enforce oppressive structures, state power, and reactionary politics.

Practising psychoanalytic clinician Lara Sheehi presents a compelling argument for how seizing the means of psychoanalysis can transform it into one of many tools in service of revolution. She demonstrates how psychoanalysis can help unpack how psychological and emotional processes are mobilised 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, as explored in From the Clinic to the Streets.