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New Psychoanalytic Spaces 2 (Unseen City), with Ankhi Mukherjee

July 16, 2023 Fernanda Negrete
New Psychoanalytic Spaces 2 (Unseen City), with Ankhi Mukherjee
Penumbr(a)cast - The Other Scene
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Penumbr(a)cast - The Other Scene
New Psychoanalytic Spaces 2 (Unseen City), with Ankhi Mukherjee
Jul 16, 2023
Fernanda Negrete

This episode's interview with Ankhi Mukherjee focuses on her recent book, Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor. It discusses Mukherjee's research on Freud's free clinics and their afterlives in different cities and projects that make psychoanalytic interventions in marginalized communities. We discuss the roles literary criticism can play in the work of these clinics, as well as the urgent need for spaces for subjectivity that are not limited to economic elites and that extend beyond the couch.

Many thanks to  Kellen Corrallo for editorial work on the episode.

Show Notes

This episode's interview with Ankhi Mukherjee focuses on her recent book, Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor. It discusses Mukherjee's research on Freud's free clinics and their afterlives in different cities and projects that make psychoanalytic interventions in marginalized communities. We discuss the roles literary criticism can play in the work of these clinics, as well as the urgent need for spaces for subjectivity that are not limited to economic elites and that extend beyond the couch.

Many thanks to  Kellen Corrallo for editorial work on the episode.