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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: Colonial War, Mental Illness, and Psychoanalysis

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The Dangers of Psychoanalysis

i think that's where we get into some of what i see as the dangers of psychoanalysis potentially so talking about like the concept of the lack for example i think is an interesting way to start with us maybe. I'm actually incredibly critical of jjjak on this front because i think in his later work and his most recent work you really see that kind of mystification happen while he has a lot that might be redemptive to it. Jjjak currently has gone in like a really weirdly right wing direction and his discussions of capitalism are all mostly cultural now there's very little discussion of the material aspects. This has led to the sort of bizarre statements about defending european

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