Decolonization and psychoanalysis the underside of signification / Ahmad Fuad Rahmat.
| Author/creator | Rahmat, Ahmad Fuad |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025. |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | The lines of the symbolic series |
| Contents | Introduction: The materiality of language and the politics of the untranslatable -- The unconscious is structured like the unlanguaged: The colonized and the traces of signification -- Transmission or defamiliarization? Savoir-faire and the two impossibilities in Lacan's decolonial unconscious -- 'Turn to Allah, Pray to the East:' Malcolm X and symbolic dispossession -- Where do gaps come from? Psychoanalysis in non-spaces. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024047528 |
| ISBN | 9781032482224 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032482194 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |