RU135: DR ROBERT BESHARA ON FREUD & SAID, PSYCHOANALYSIS, LIBERATION PRAXIS

Rendering Unconscious Podcast welcomes Dr. Robert K. Beshara, critical psychologist interested in theorizing subjectivity vis-a-vis ideology through radical qualitative research (ie discourse analysis). In addition to being a scholar-activist, Dr. Beshara is a fine artist with a background in film, theater, and music. He holds two terminal degrees: a PhD in Psychology: Consciousness and Society from the University of West Georgia, and an MFA in Independent Film and Digital Imaging from Governors State University, Illinois. He currently works as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Northern New Mexico College. His books include Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis, Critical Psychology Praxis: Psychosocial Non-Alignment to Modernity/Coloniality, Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies, and A Critical Introduction to Psychology. For more information please visit www.robertbeshara.com Between April 1st and July 1st, 2021, a 20% discount is applicable across all formats of the book Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis upon checkout on the Palgrave website using the discount code FreudSaid20 https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030567422 Egyptian philosopher Mourad Wahba's website: https://www.mouradwahba.com/#/ Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists & other intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. Episodes are also created from lectures given at various international conferences: www.drvanessasinclair.net Rendering Unconscious Podcast can be found at Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo… Please visit www.renderingunconscious.org/about for links to all of these sites. Rendering Unconscious is also a book! Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics and Poetry (Trapart, 2019): store.trapart.net/details/00000 You can support the podcast at: www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Your support is greatly appreciated. For more information visit: www.robertbeshara.com www.trapart.net www.drvanessasinclair.net www.renderingunconscious.org www.dasunbehagen.org The track at the end of the episode is "Nobody Expects the Lacanian Inquisition" by Robert Beshara: https://soundcloud.com/kmtpodcast/nobody-expects-the-lacanian-inquisition Image of Freud and Said