From the Clinic to the Streets

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.