People''s History of Psychoanalysis

It has been decades since Freud fell out of favour, not only in mainstream psychiatry but also in radical thought, where both he and Lacan were accused of sexist and class biases. A People's History of Psychoanalysis refuses to accept this growing depoliticization of a formerly revolutionary field. Florent Gabarron-Garcia shatters the comfortable narrative of psychoanalysts as armchair theorists placidly interpreting family complexes sheltered in their consulting rooms. Recalling Freud's radical moments (such as his promotion of free clinics in Weimar Germany), or lesser-known figures including the Marxist Feminist psychoanalyst Marie Langer, his new history delves into how revolutionary ferment has cross-fertilized the exploration of the unconscious. A People's History of Psychoanalysis is for those who wish to resist the conformist, therapist-centered, and repressive management of madness under contemporary capitalism.

About the author

Florent Gabarron-Garcia is a psychoanalyst, psychologist and doctor in psychopathology. He lectures at University Paris 8. After teaching philosophy in high school, he trained in institutional analysis at the La Borde clinic, later working in the psychiatric hospital and in the CMPP. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Chimères, founded by Deleuze and Guattari. He currently lives in France.
Shuli Branson is a queer and trans writer, translator, teacher, artist, and anarchist organiser, living in Western North Carolina. They translated Guy Hocquenghem's second book, Gay Liberation After May 68, as well as Jacques Lesage De La Haye’s The Abolition of Prison, and co-edited Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies. They are also a frequent co-host on the anarchist podcast The Final Straw Radio.

Product details

• Authors: Florent Gabarron-Garcia
• Assisted by: S Branson (Translation), Shuli Branson (Translation)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.07.2025
• EAN: 9780745349602
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4960-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: People's History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, PSYCHOLOGY / History, History of Medicine, Social and cultural history, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Lacanian psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis