Main description:

* Intersectional approach to psychoanalysis that is rarely included in the psychoanalytic literature.
* International contributions covering a range of issues such as anti-globalisation, Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, within cultural, theoretical, and clinical contexts.
* Offers a historical overview of psychoanalysis as a profession oriented to inclusionary practices, and demonstrates the continuing relevance of that today.
* Will appeal to psychoanalysts as well as academics and researchers in a broad range of fields.

Contents:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS, PREFACE, INTRODUCTION: Psychoanalysis, Politics, Oppression and Resistance: Lacanian Perspectives, CHAPTER ONE: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Marxism: Conceptual and Practical Work, CHAPTER TWO: Capital's Jouissance: Society and Sexual Political Economy in Lacan's Marx, CHAPTER THREE: Can We Decolonize Lacan? Indigenous Origins of the Split Subject, CHAPTER FOUR: Dwelling on the Direction of the Treatment for the Homeless Subject, CHAPTER FIVE: Psychoanalysis is Spoken Here: Analytic Ethics and the Talking Cure in the Delivery of Community Mental Health Treatment, CHAPTER SIX: Unheard Bodies and the Challenges in the Constitution of Immigrants' Identity and Subjectivity, CHAPTER SEVEN: A Conversation on Psychoanalytic Work with Children in the System, CHAPTER EIGHT: The College of Registered Psychotherapists in Ontario and the Controlled Act of Psychotherapy: a Lacanian Impasse, CHAPTER NINE: Groups and Communality: A Real Conundrum for the Social World, CHAPTER TEN: A Spectral Materialism to Safeguard Modernity: Tractatus Economico-Psychanalytico-Philosophicus, CHAPTER ELEVEN: Invisible Fist of the Market: Fight Club and the Therapeutic Lures of Emancipatory Violence, CHAPTER TWELVE: Trauma, Irony and Animals, Index