Open discussion with Lara Sheehi, author of From the Clinic to the Streets

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From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures With Lara Sheehi

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About the Book Practising psychoanalytic clinician Lara Sheehi creates a thrilling argument for how seizing the means of psychoanalysis can transform it into one of many tools in service of revolution, showing how psychoanalysis can help unpack how psychological and emotional processes are mobilized by political power, capitalism, the state, oppression, and even genocide.

Arguing for a new, liberatory psychoanalysis, she calls for us to harness its radical power from the clinic to the streets.

Part of the "'On Violence' Experimental Study Sequence" (pt. 3, Fall 2026) Join us for a sequence of conversations with authors of key texts addressing violence, empire, liberation, solidarity, abolition, and the problem of “Man”/human. These live discussions will be led by students of the “‘On Violence’ Experimental Study Sequence,” taught by Prof. Dylan Rodríguez. Participants will have opportunities to engage with authors during the sessions, to whatever extent time permits. This is an experiment. We hope you will read the authors’ work prior to each study meeting, but as importantly, we aspire to cultivate a sense of intellectual collaboration, curiosity, and activated thought.

Sponsored by The Decolonizing Humanism(?) programming stream at the UCR Center for Ideas and Society

Schedule of Discussions (3:30-4:50 p.m. PST)

October 13 - Too Black, Rasul A. Mowatt, Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits (Routledge, 2024)October 20 - Andy Clarno, Janaé Bonsu-Love, Enrique Alvear Moreno, Lydia Dana, Michael De Anda Muñiz, Ilā Ravichandran and Haley Volpintesta, Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago (University of Minnesota Press, 2024)October 27 - Susila Gurusami, Break the System: Criminalized Black Mothers and the Reproductive Politics of Abolition (University of Chicago Press, 2026)November 3 - Annie Paradise, The War on the Social Factory: The Struggle for Community Safety in the Silicon Valley (Northwestern University Press, 2024)November 10 - Rahsaan Mahadeo, Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and Black (Cornell University Press, 2024)November 17 - Corinne Mitsuye Sugino, Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans (Rutgers University Press, 2024)November 24 - Lara Sheehi, From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto Press, 2026)