Psychoanalysis, Politics, Oppression and Resistance

This innovative text addresses the lack of literature regarding intersectional approaches to psychoanalysis, underscoring the importance of thinking through race, class, and gender within psychoanalytic theory and practice.

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Chris Vanderwees, PhD, RP, is a psychoanalyst and registered psychotherapist at St. John the Compassionate in Toronto, Canada.

Kristen Hennessy, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and advanced certified trauma practitioner in Pennsylvania. Her work appears in the collection Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents (Routledge, 2017).

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS, PREFACE, INTRODUCTION: Psychoanalysis, Politics, Oppression and Resistance: Lacanian Perspectives, CHAPTER ONE: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Marxism: Conceptual and Practical Work, CHAPTER TWO: Capital s Jouissance: Society and Sexual Political Economy in Lacan s Marx, CHAPTER THREE: Can We Decolonize Lacan? Indigenous Origins of the Split Subject, CHAPTER FOUR: Dwelling on the Direction of the Treatment for the Homeless Subject, CHAPTER FIVE: Psychoanalysis is Spoken Here: Analytic Ethics and the Talking Cure in the Delivery of Community Mental Health Treatment, CHAPTER SIX: Unheard Bodies and the Challenges in the Constitution of Immigrants Identity and Subjectivity, CHAPTER SEVEN: A Conversation on Psychoanalytic Work with Children in the System, CHAPTER EIGHT: The College of Registered Psychotherapists in Ontario and the Controlled Act of Psychotherapy: a Lacanian Impasse, CHAPTER NINE: Groups and Communality: A Real Conundrum for the Social World, CHAPTER TEN: A Spectral Materialism to Safeguard Modernity: Tractatus Economico-Psychanalytico-Philosophicus, CHAPTER ELEVEN: Invisible Fist of the Market: Fight Club and the Therapeutic Lures of Emancipatory Violence, CHAPTER TWELVE: Trauma, Irony and Animals, Index