Occupying Psychoanalysis in a Post-Colonial World: Fanon’s ‘Zone of Nonbeing’ and the Subject of Racism

Gautam Basu Thakur

Occupying Psychoanalysis in a Post-Colonial World: Fanon’s ‘Zone of Nonbeing’ and the Subject of Racism

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In this talk, Professor Gautam Basu Thakur discusses an ontology-based approach for rethinking racism and race-relations in the global world via the writings of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Frantz Fanon.

Original language	American English
State	Published - 23 Apr 2022
Event	Decolonizing Psychoanalysis Seminar series, The Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists, London, U.K. - Virtual Duration: 23 Apr 2022 → …

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Conference	Decolonizing Psychoanalysis Seminar series, The Race and Culture Committee of the Guild of Psychotherapists, London, U.K.
Period	23/04/22 → …

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Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

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Occupying Psychoanalysis in a Post-Colonial World: Fanon’s ‘Zone of Nonbeing’ and the Subject of Racism

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