Description
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.
Practicing psychoanalytic clinician Lara Sheehi argues compellingly that by seizing the means of psychoanalysis, we can transform it into a powerful tool for revolution. She demonstrates how psychoanalysis elucidates the ways political power, capitalism, the state, oppression, and even genocide mobilize psychological and emotional processes.
Arguing for a new, liberatory psychoanalysis, she calls for us to harness its radical power from the clinic to the streets.
Author: Lara Sheehi
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 05/20/2026
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780745350059
ISBN10: 0745350054
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | Psychoanalysis
- Social Science | Activism & Social Justice
- Political Science | Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
About the Author
Lara 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 Psychic Militancy 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 Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine 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 Forensic Architecture.