Lara Sheehi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1718809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lara Sheehi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lara |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheehi |
| SIGNATURE | SHEEHI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7827-3477 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The colonial republic of psychoanalysis: How psychoanalysis polices the psychic sovereignty of “Others
This article uses a scholarly case to analyze how psychoanalytic soft power is extended to govern and regulate the “psychic sovereignty” of “non-normative” subjects, especially racialized, gendered and sexualized subjects in, from and of the Global South. In using an example from the ways psychoanalysis circulates within France (in particular within contemporary debates of what constitutes someone who is truly “French”), we consider how the “Fren…
Intent to Harm: Settler Colonial Outposts in Psychoanalysis
This autoethnographic article unpacks a highly publicized, Zionist, and right-wing smear campaign. Rather than individualize this process, the article discusses this smear campaign to outline the mechanics of what are referred to as “settler colonial outposts” that extend the sovereignty of the Israeli settler state. The article maps out how settler colonial outposts are ideological formations and thus also spaces of convergence for fascists and …
Practice, Not Performance: Will Psychoanalysis Take up Sovereignty, Solidarity, and the Expansiveness of Bodies in the Wake of the Dobbs Decision
The special issue editor, helen DeVinney, and journal editor, Lara Sheehi, engage in a conversation exploring their own relationship, their lived experience of solidarity, and the development of the special issue in response to the Dobbs decision, specifically speaking to what they hoped to achieve with the issue and what they hoped to resist, as well as thoughts about what this issue as a whole has to say to psychoanalysis as a field and the cha…
The Unconscious Matters: Sexuality, Violence, Regimes: A Short Conversation with Lara Sheehi
This article introduces readers to the special issue, which is on Sexuality, Violence, and Regimes: Speaking the Unconscious. It starts by presenting why the unconscious matters to psychoanalysis and beyond, before it moves to a short overview of the contributions it hosts. It continues with a conversation between the editor of the special issue and Lara Sheehi, who discuss, first, psychoanalysis, violence, gender, and sexuality, as well as how w…
Bodies, reproductive rights and self determination
The Ideology of Apparitions: Disrupting Supremacist Temporalities of Being (White)
This article responds to Dhwani Shah’s affectively and racially attuned article, “When Racialized Ghosts Refuse to Become Ancestors: Tasting Loewald’s ‘Blood of Recognition’ in Racial Melancholia and Mixed-Race Identities.” The discussion urges readers and psychoanalytic practitioners to consider an inversion of the haunted/haunting matrix, discussing the ideology of apparitions and the phenomenon of forced spectralization. The analysis shows how…
The settlers' town is a strongly built town: Fanon in Palestine
This article emerges from one collaboration with Palestinian clinicians while presenting the work of Frantz Fanon to a group of training clinicians in the Maana Center of EMMS Nazareth Hospital in Nazareth (al‐Nasirah). Reading and discussing Fanon in Palestine with Palestinian clinicians and trainees elicited deepseated feelings of affirmation and validation, while also disclosing anxieties arising from colonial alienation, as Fanon would say. A…
The Reality Principle: Fanonian Undoing, Unlearning, and Decentering: A Discussion of “Fanon’s Vision of Embodied Racism for Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice”
This response argues that attention to the ideological misattunements in psychoanalytic work helps us move beyond the symbolic—and that which it hides—into the real, material implications for our patients. By discussing Waverley’s hyper-corporality especially in relation to Knoblauch, his White analyst, we can mark a real vs. symbolic recognition of the expansiveness of Whiteness and the ways in which it aims to recenter itself in our theory, pra…
Talking Back Introduction to Special Edition: Black, Indigenous, Women of Color Talk Back: Decentering Normative Psychoanalysis
This introduction aims to contextualize the special edition, defining why "talking back" is necessary within the context of a normative psychoanalysis. The author also provides an affective frame by which readers can approach the contributions
What Can I Say? Contested Words and Contested Thoughts in the Contemporary Moment
Enactments of otherness and searching for a third space in the Palestine-Israel matrix
Talking Back Introduction to Special Edition: Black, Indigenous, Women of Color Talk Back: Decentering Normative Psychoanalysis
This introduction aims to contextualize the special edition, defining why "talking back" is necessary within the context of a normative psychoanalysis. The author also provides an affective frame by which readers can approach the contributions
Intent to Harm: Settler Colonial Outposts in Psychoanalysis
This autoethnographic article unpacks a highly publicized, Zionist, and right-wing smear campaign. Rather than individualize this process, the article discusses this smear campaign to outline the mechanics of what are referred to as “settler colonial outposts” that extend the sovereignty of the Israeli settler state. The article maps out how settler colonial outposts are ideological formations and thus also spaces of convergence for fascists and …
Enactments of otherness and searching for a third space in the Palestine-Israel matrix
The colonial republic of psychoanalysis: How psychoanalysis polices the psychic sovereignty of “Others
This article uses a scholarly case to analyze how psychoanalytic soft power is extended to govern and regulate the “psychic sovereignty” of “non-normative” subjects, especially racialized, gendered and sexualized subjects in, from and of the Global South. In using an example from the ways psychoanalysis circulates within France (in particular within contemporary debates of what constitutes someone who is truly “French”), we consider how the “Fren…
Enactments of otherness and searching for a third space in the Palestine-Israel matrix
What Can I Say? Contested Words and Contested Thoughts in the Contemporary Moment
The settlers' town is a strongly built town: Fanon in Palestine
This article emerges from one collaboration with Palestinian clinicians while presenting the work of Frantz Fanon to a group of training clinicians in the Maana Center of EMMS Nazareth Hospital in Nazareth (al‐Nasirah). Reading and discussing Fanon in Palestine with Palestinian clinicians and trainees elicited deepseated feelings of affirmation and validation, while also disclosing anxieties arising from colonial alienation, as Fanon would say. A…
The Reality Principle: Fanonian Undoing, Unlearning, and Decentering: A Discussion of “Fanon’s Vision of Embodied Racism for Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice”
This response argues that attention to the ideological misattunements in psychoanalytic work helps us move beyond the symbolic—and that which it hides—into the real, material implications for our patients. By discussing Waverley’s hyper-corporality especially in relation to Knoblauch, his White analyst, we can mark a real vs. symbolic recognition of the expansiveness of Whiteness and the ways in which it aims to recenter itself in our theory, pra…
Talking Back Introduction to Special Edition: Black, Indigenous, Women of Color Talk Back: Decentering Normative Psychoanalysis
This introduction aims to contextualize the special edition, defining why "talking back" is necessary within the context of a normative psychoanalysis. The author also provides an affective frame by which readers can approach the contributions
The Ideology of Apparitions: Disrupting Supremacist Temporalities of Being (White)
This article responds to Dhwani Shah’s affectively and racially attuned article, “When Racialized Ghosts Refuse to Become Ancestors: Tasting Loewald’s ‘Blood of Recognition’ in Racial Melancholia and Mixed-Race Identities.” The discussion urges readers and psychoanalytic practitioners to consider an inversion of the haunted/haunting matrix, discussing the ideology of apparitions and the phenomenon of forced spectralization. The analysis shows how…
Practice, Not Performance: Will Psychoanalysis Take up Sovereignty, Solidarity, and the Expansiveness of Bodies in the Wake of the Dobbs Decision
The special issue editor, helen DeVinney, and journal editor, Lara Sheehi, engage in a conversation exploring their own relationship, their lived experience of solidarity, and the development of the special issue in response to the Dobbs decision, specifically speaking to what they hoped to achieve with the issue and what they hoped to resist, as well as thoughts about what this issue as a whole has to say to psychoanalysis as a field and the cha…
The Unconscious Matters: Sexuality, Violence, Regimes: A Short Conversation with Lara Sheehi
This article introduces readers to the special issue, which is on Sexuality, Violence, and Regimes: Speaking the Unconscious. It starts by presenting why the unconscious matters to psychoanalysis and beyond, before it moves to a short overview of the contributions it hosts. It continues with a conversation between the editor of the special issue and Lara Sheehi, who discuss, first, psychoanalysis, violence, gender, and sexuality, as well as how w…
Bodies, reproductive rights and self determination
Intent to Harm: Settler Colonial Outposts in Psychoanalysis
This autoethnographic article unpacks a highly publicized, Zionist, and right-wing smear campaign. Rather than individualize this process, the article discusses this smear campaign to outline the mechanics of what are referred to as “settler colonial outposts” that extend the sovereignty of the Israeli settler state. The article maps out how settler colonial outposts are ideological formations and thus also spaces of convergence for fascists and …
The colonial republic of psychoanalysis: How psychoanalysis polices the psychic sovereignty of “Others
This article uses a scholarly case to analyze how psychoanalytic soft power is extended to govern and regulate the “psychic sovereignty” of “non-normative” subjects, especially racialized, gendered and sexualized subjects in, from and of the Global South. In using an example from the ways psychoanalysis circulates within France (in particular within contemporary debates of what constitutes someone who is truly “French”), we consider how the “Fren…
Sociology (10 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)