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Event	:	The Missed Encounter between Psychoanalysis and the Black Radical Tradition
Venue	:	Online and In-Person at the CMPS, NY 10011, United States
Date	:	16/12/2023
Duration	:	5pm - 7pm GMT / 1pm - 3pm EST
Extra Info	:	Presented by Daniel José Gaztambidee, PysD Discussant: Sadeq Rahimi, PhD The avant-garde French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan is oft-cited as claiming that Karl Marx “invented” the notion of the symptom. This presentation aims to be equally provocative in describing how the Black Marxist W.E.B. Du Bois may well have “invented” the notion of the unconscious as such. This provocation aims to draw attention to a “missed encounter” between this pivotal figure of the Black Radical Tradition and the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. By drawing on primary sources and the available historical record, this presentation outlines the parallels between Freud and Du Bois’ lives, and how their experiences led them to surprisingly similar conclusions about the nature of subjectivity, the intersection between psyche and society and the intimate fusion between race and class. In tracing Du Bois’s often unrecognized “psychoanalytic” insights and Freud’s often missed commentary on racism and the psyche, we find ourselves at the doorstep of Freud and Du Bois’s “most disputatious heir,” the Martiniquan Revolutionary psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. In Fanon’s clinical papers and decolonial texts we find psychoanalysis and the Black Radical Tradition engaged in not so much a dialogue as a reckoning. From this reckoning emerges not just a decolonial psychoanalytic theory, but a decolonial psychoanalytic technique. Case examples will be used to illustrate the clinical applications of this history for today’s practitioners.
Organised By	:	Co-sponsored by Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies & Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
Web Link	:	https://www.cmps.edu/The-Missed-Encounter-Between-Psychoanalysis-and-the-Black-Radical-Tradition