Psychic Intrusion and Palestinian Anti-Colonial Resistance
A BSA Sociology, Psychoanalysis & the Psychosocial Study Group Seminar Series
3 February 2025 (15:00-16:00 GMT)
Online
About the Series
The Sociology, Psychoanalysis & the Psychosocial Study Group are hosting a seminar series on violence. This is a particularly apposite focus for a study group that can bring psychoanalytic insights to bear on social and political concerns, particularly now while colonial and neocolonial terror claims the lives of thousands.
The seminar series will be held online and will take place on the first Monday of each month from November – March (inclusive) (excluding January 2025). More events will be added for later dates in 2025.
About the Event
Speaker: Lara Sheehi
Speak Bio: Lara Sheehi (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, and a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa's Institute for Social and Health Sciences. She is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is the President of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA, Division 39), co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and co-editor of Counterspace in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Lara is on the advisory board for the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network and the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. She is currently working on a new book, From the Clinic to the Street: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto Press).
Abstract: This talk will highlight how Palestinians refuse the terms of settler colonial psychic intrusion by disrupting its hollow attempts at “repair”. It will take up how psychic refusals are not based in recalcitrance but rather emerge as ethical imperatives of resistance that guide the possibility of another mode of being and staying in (or importantly, out of) relation.
Registration
This event is free to attend however registration is required.