Book Launch
“From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures”
In Conversation with Dr Lara Sheehi
The Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS), University of South Africa, in collaboration with the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA), invites you to a conversation with Lara Sheehi on her newly published book, “From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures”.
“From the Clinic to the Streets” reimagines psychoanalysis as a resource for revolutionary struggle. Examining psychological warfare, psychic intrusion, and psychic militancy, Sheehi explores the psychic dimensions of domination and resistance, asking what it would mean to turn psychoanalysis against oppressive structures rather than in their service.
Date: 17 August 2026
Time: 18:00 – 20:00 (SAST)
2 General CPD Points
Online via Zoom
Dr Lara Sheehi
Lara Sheehi is a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa’s Institute for Social and Health Sciences, a licensed clinical psychologist, and host of the Psychic Militancy podcast. Her work focuses on psychoanalysis, the psychic refusals central to liberation struggles and life-making in the Global South, the psychic dimensions of resistance and revolution, and critical Zionism studies. She is co-author, with Stephen Sheehi, of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine, which won the 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is a member of the founding collective for the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism and serves on the advisory board of Forensic Architecture.
In Dialogue With:
Prof Garth Stevens
Prof Peace Kiguwa
Prof Nick Malherbe
Prof Shahnaaz Suffla
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