From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures

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.

Practising psychoanalytic clinician Lara Sheehi creates a thrilling argument for how seizing the means of psychoanalysis can transform it into one of many tools in service of revolution, showing how psychoanalysis can help unpack how psychological and emotional processes are mobilized 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.

“Blazing with militant clarity … Here is a book that mounts the barricades, and compels us to wholeheartedly struggle, alongside its author, for real planetary liberation and a life worth living” Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the Family

“A waterfall of insurgent thinking ... Sheehi writes for nothing less than to re-arrange the terms by which we relate to the world” Avgi Saketopoulou, psychoanalyst, author of Sexuality Beyond Consent

“Sheehi deftly illuminates the mechanics of psychological warfare and provides a methodology for how we can protect our minds against the intrusion of depraved colonial mythologies” Orisanmi Burton, author of Tip of the Spear

“Read, embrace and enact the lessons of Lara Sheehi’s testimony of radical love offered in service of transformation” Gail Lewis, Visiting Professor, Yale University