Ahmad Fuad Rahmat

Decolonization and Psychoanalysis (eBook, PDF)

The Underside of Signification

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Produktbeschreibung

Decolonization and Psychoanalysis challenges conventional psychoanalytic assumptions by revisiting Lacan's conceptualization of the materiality of speech through a decolonial lens.

Ahmad Fuad Rahmat explores how Lacan's ideas about the symbolic order and its historical development are intertwined with decolonial assumptions, and proposes that critically considering these assumptions can pave the way for a decolonial psychoanalysis. The book begins with how Lacan uses Freud's Jewishness as a marginalized perspective that reveals the excluded dimensions of signification within the symbolic order, and examines James Joyce's anti-colonial politics and its significance for Lacan's conception of the sinthome. The book includes a critique of Slavoj Zizek's Eurocentric reading of Malcolm X as a foil with which colonized speech could be conceived as "symbolic dispossession". Finally, it reframes the notion of "the gap" by understanding global capitalism as a mode of exchange to advocate for a decolonial psychoanalysis that focuses on the non-spaces of transmission as opposed to a like-for-like export of the clinic from the center to the periphery.

Decolonization and Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and to scholars of psychoanalytic studies, critical theory, and cultural studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040319598
• Artikelnr.: 73634070

Autorenporträt

Ahmad Fuad Rahmat is assistant professor of Media and Digital Cultures at Nottingham University in Malaysia. His work has been published in a wide variety of journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Series editor preface
Introduction: The materiality of language and the politics of the
untranslatable
Chapter 1: The unconscious is structured like the unlanguaged: The
colonized and the traces of signification
Chapter 2: Transmission or defamiliarization? Savoir-faire and the two
impossibilities in Lacan's decolonial unconscious
Chapter 3: 'Turn to Allah, Pray to the East:' Malcolm X and symbolic
dispossession
Chapter 4: Where do gaps come from? Psychoanalysis in non-spaces
Conclusion.