Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis
Seminar · Private

Das Unbehagen in der Kultur

Faculty

Robert Beshara

Robert Beshara

Robert K. Beshara is the author of Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies (Routledge, 2019), Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis (Palgrave, 2021), A Psychoanalytic Biography of Ye: The Legacy of Unconditional Love (Cambridge Scholars, 2023), Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory: A Study of Youssef Chahine’s al-Masir (Bloomsbury, 2024), and Writings for a Liberation Psychoanalysis: Politicizing the Unconscious from the Core of a Crumbling Empire (Routledge, 2026). He is also the editor of A Critical Introduction to Psychology (Nova Science Publishers, 2019), Critical Psychology Praxis: Psychosocial Non-Alignment to Modernity/Coloniality (Routledge, 2021), and Radical Humanism: Decolonizing Perspectives in Critical Psychology (Routledge, 2026). Additionally, he translated Mourad Wahba’s (1995) Fundamentalism and Secularization (Bloomsbury, 2022) and founded the Critical Psychology website: www.criticalpsychology.org. He serves as an Associate Professor of Psychology and Humanities at Northern New Mexico College and is a psychoanalyst-in-formation at the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis.

About

This seminar introduces a close reading of Freud’s 1930 treatise, exploring the structural antagonism between individual drive and the demands of the collective. In the current American political landscape, characterized by intensifying polarizations and the shifting boundaries of the commons, Freud’s insights into the cultural superego and the aggressive underside of communal bonds take on a renewed, albeit ambiguous, urgency. We will examine how the renunciation of drives—once considered the price of entry into civilization—is being renegotiated in a digital and fragmented social field.

Readings

  • Freud, S. Civilization and Its Discontents, (2015). Trans. G. C. Richter. Broadview Press.

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Schedule

Thursdays, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Pacific Time. Weekly for 5 sessions, starting October 1st. Online via Zoom.

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