Book Review Essay: “Psychoanalysis and Coloniality: A Necessary Articulation” A Review of David Pavón-Cuéllar’s “Psicoanálisis y Colonialidad”

Abstract

This review analyses the book of David Pavón-Cuéllar, titled Psicoanálisis y Colonialidad: Hacia una Inflexión Anticolonial de la Herencia Freudiana (Psychoanalysis and Coloniality: Towards an Anti-Colonial Inflection of the Freudian Legacy). Drawing upon the historical markers of his country of origin, Mexico, the author densely constructs an original articulation between coloniality and psychoanalysis, proceeding from the European Freudian matrix within a topology that includes Marxism and currents of critical thought. Providing a comprehensive view of the état de l’art of this interface, he begins with its cartography, examines the silence of psychoanalysts about power relations, and explicates how, in Latin America, its contemporary repression actualises new forms of oppression within the ontological domain of professional practice itself. Asserting the necessity of decolonising psychoanalysis within Latin American geopolitics, Pavón-Cuéllar mobilises Mesoamerican concepts and outlines possibilities for an anti-colonial psychoanalytic clinic, whose revolutionary effects impact the structures of capitalism, patriarchy, and coloniality."

Keywords:

• Psychoanalysis Keyword: Psychoanalysis
• coloniality Keyword: coloniality
• Marxism Keyword: Marxism
• patriarchy Keyword: patriarchy
• Freud Keyword: Freud

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