1st Edition
Decolonization and Psychoanalysis The Underside of Signification
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.
Biography
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.
"Ahmad Fuad Rahmat's Decolonization and Psychoanalysis: The Underside of Signification is a groundbreaking work that brings an innovative lens to the study of psychoanalysis through the prism of decolonial thought. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the intersections of psychoanalytic theory and postcolonial critique, as it masterfully unpacks how Jacques Lacan’s ideas on the materiality of speech can be employed to critique colonial legacies within the field of psychoanalysis."
- Robert K. Beshara, author of Decolonial Psychoanalysis and Freud and Said
“The most ambitious project yet to formulate a nuanced and robust vocabulary for decolonial psychoanalysis. Fuad's analysis does not simply underline the problem of how to break the colonial matrix that has formed the historical grounding of psychoanalysis, he advances, with critical skill and radical theoretical originality, a series of concepts that fundamentally shift the axis of what a decolonial psychoanalysis can be. Whether via his exploration of the materiality of speech as a basis for decolonial subjectivity, the notion of symbolic dispossession (as thought through Malcolm X), the idea of the 'unlanguaged subject', or the impetus to disrupt the primacy of European temporality, Fuad's powerful analysis of the decolonial unconscious profoundly unwrites what would have been the colonial future of psychoanalysis and produces a compelling vision for a global decoloniality."
- Derek Hook, author of Six Moments in Lacan
"Fuad takes the reader on a journey from Bosnia and Herzegovina before the First World War to Malcolm X, via Joyce and Asia, betting that psychoanalysis can't realize its globalization, neither its decolonial potentiality, without a work of ‘defamiliarization’ on its own conceptual habits and political imagination."- Livio Boni, Collège International de Philosophie, Paris.
