Friday, October 11, 2024

Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon's Couch (Daniel José Gaztambide, 2024) (CP)

https://www.amazon.com/Decolonizing-Psychoanalytic-Technique-Putting-Fanons/dp/3031484754 (accessible via Scribd)

At the time I lacked a framework for understanding what I was doing

and why. This book attempts to articulate such a framework to facilitate

a nuanced, theoretically rich, and pragmatic way of attending to both the

relational and sociocultural in the consulting room, and of thinking holisti-

cally about human suffering—we not only need to find meaning, relatedness,

and purpose in our lives, we also need social, political, and economic condi-

tions that make flourishing possible. My primary goal is to equip beginning

and seasoned clinicians with theoretical and pragmatic tools for helping the

patient in front of us, while imagining how to intervene in the world outside

the clinical encounter. This framework is not original to me, though it has

been hiding in plain sight since the beginnings of our field—the very under-

side of psychoanalysis. This missing link, this “broken circuit,” is a decolonial

psychoanalysis. (ibid, p. 2)