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The Impossible Profession is a monthly podcast that invites writers, theorists, and psychoanalytic clinicians to explore psychoanalysis as both a contemporary clinical practice and a lens for understanding the wider world. The show is hosted by Richard B.
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Making a Scene with Avgi Saketopoulou (opens the original)
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In this episode, Richard talks to psychoanalyst, author, and educator Avgi Saketopoulou about the silence of psychoanalytic institutions over the genocide in Gaza. We discuss the wave of disinvitations and the pleas of neutrality, what Avgi reads in that silence, and her turn from critique to construction in P-HOLE, the liberatory education project she co-founded as an alternative to the training institute. Along the way, the myth of analytic neutrality, the relation of clinic to politics, and w
Fanon and Psychoanalysis with Derek Hook (opens the original)
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For the return of the show, Richard talks to professor of psychology and psychoanalyst Derek Hook about his book, Fanon, Psychoanalysis, and Critical Decolonial Psychology . We discuss the various waves of reception of Frantz Fanon and the recent turn to his clinical writing, the notions of the psycho-political and the sociogenic unconscious — the idea that the unconscious is shaped by social and political forces, most notably colonialism and its legacy — and the vital importance of his thought
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