A People\s History of Psychoanalysis
A People\s History of Psychoanalysis As inequality widens in all sectors of contemporary society, we must ask: is psychoanalysis too white and well-to-do to be relevant to social, economic, and…
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A People\s History of Psychoanalysis
As inequality widens in all sectors of contemporary society, we must ask: is psychoanalysis too white and well-to-do to be relevant to social, economic, and racial justice struggles? Can it help us understand why systems of oppression are so stable and how oppression becomes internalized? Are its ideas and practices too alien for people of color?
Starting with the work of Sigmund Freud and the first generation of left-leaning psychoanalysts, Gaztambide traces a series of interrelated psychoanalytic ideas and social justice movements that culminated in the work of Frantz Fanon, Paulo Freire, and Ignacio Mart n-Bar . In A People's History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology, Daniel Jos Gaztambide reviews the oft-forgotten history of social justice in psychoanalysis. Through this intellectual genealogy, Gaztambide presents a psychoanalytically informed theory of race,