Book Launch: Lara Sheehi, From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- Venue
- SOAS, Main Building
- Room
- Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)
About this event
Join us for an in-depth and interdisciplinary conversation with Lara Sheehi, Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Louis Allday, and Rami Rmeileh about Dr Sheehi’s new book, From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto, 2026).
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.
To join this event
Please register by following the link at the top of this page.
Image credit: Socialist Appeal via Wikimedia Commons.
