Critical psychologist and author Dr Robert K Beshara discusses the psychologisation of Islamophobia through the lens of Jacques Lacan’s university discourse
Saturday 28 January 2023, 17:30 – 18:45 GMT
Online
Abstract
In this talk, Dr Beshara will unravel the psychologization of Islamophobia drawing on Jacques Lacan’s university discourse (S1→S2→a→$), which, according to Bruce Fink, is “an arm of capitalist production”.
Along the way, he will import theoretico-methodological tools from Edward Said, Enrique Dussel, Walter Mignolo, and others by illustrating an application of decolonial psychoanalysis to critical Islamophobia studies.
www.routledge.com/Decolonial-Psychoanalysis-Towards-Critical-Islamophobia-Studies/Beshara/p/book/9780367174132
Biography
Robert K. Beshara is the author of Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies (Routledge, 2019) as well as Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis (Palgrave, 2021). He is also the editor of A Critical Introduction to Psychology (Nova, 2019) and Critical Psychology Praxis: Psychosocial Non-Alignment to Modernity/Coloniality (Routledge, 2021). Further, he is the translator of Mourad Wahba’s (1995) Fundamentalism and Secularization (Bloomsbury, 2022). He is the founder of the Critical Psychology website: www.criticalpsychology.org. He works as an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Arts & Human Sciences at Northern New Mexico College. For more information visit www.robertbeshara.com.