The colonial republic of psychoanalysis: how psychoanalysis polices the psychic sovereignty of “Others”

• Published in: Psychoanalysis, culture & society
• Main Authors: Sheehi, Stephen, Sheehi, Lara
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 20.12.2024

This article uses a scholarly case to analyze how psychoanalytic soft power is extended to govern and regulate the “psychic sovereignty” of “non-normative” subjects, especially racialized, gendered and sexualized subjects in, from and of the Global South. In using an example from the ways psychoanal...