Decolonization and Psychoanalysis - The Underside of Signification

Decolonization and Psychoanalysis challenges traditional psychoanalytic frameworks by revisiting Lacan's conceptualization of the materiality of speech through a decolonial lens.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Ahmad Fuad Rahmat is assistant professor of Media and Digital Cultures at Nottingham University in Malaysia. His work has been published in a wide variety of journals.

Summary

Decolonization and Psychoanalysis challenges traditional psychoanalytic frameworks by revisiting Lacan’s conceptualization of the materiality of speech through a decolonial lens.

Product details

• Authors: Ahmad Fuad Rahmat
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032482224
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3248222-4
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: The Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity