Series: Connections and Conversation
Connections and Conversation created and hosted by Shir Shanun, Psy.D. is a psychoanalytic open space for cultivating creativity and freedom of thought and feeling in a free Zoom meeting. We invite you to engage with our presenters and community as they share their interests and passions in conversation on current topics in psychoanalysis. Please see our calendar of events. The meeting often begins with a 45 minute presentation followed by 45 minutes of conversation. When an event is recorded you can access the recording at the vault.
This series is open to all.
In case of questions please contact: [email protected]
How Fascism Came for Psychoanalysis, and Why We Need Antifascist Psychoanalysis
July 19, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PDT
Psychoanalysts are more influential now than ever in our history, because some psychoanalysts have turned towards fascism, working in common cause with leading American fascist politicians and political operatives. In this talk, I will review research I undertook as I completed a book on fascism and psychoanalysis, with a special focus on psychoanalysts who have been actively involved in producing and promoting fascist propaganda, particularly regarding trans people, Palestinians, and academics and activists who work to support both those groups. I will contextualize these recent events through a discussion of the longue durée of authoritarianism within psychoanalysis, from Freud forward, and I will conclude with a brief consideration of why the recent and remote historical events I recount make clear the need for an antifascist psychoanalysis.
Presenter
Carter J. Carter, Ph.D, LICSW
Series: Connections and Conversation
Connections and Conversation created and hosted by Shir Shanun, Psy.D. is a psychoanalytic open space for cultivating creativity and freedom of thought and feeling in a free Zoom meeting. We invite you to engage with our presenters and community as they share their interests and passions in conversation on current topics in psychoanalysis. Please see our calendar of events. The meeting often begins with a 45 minute presentation followed by 45 minutes of conversation. When an event is recorded you can access the recording at the vault.
This series is open to all.
In case of questions please contact: [email protected]
How Fascism Came for Psychoanalysis, and Why We Need Antifascist Psychoanalysis
July 19, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PDT
Psychoanalysts are more influential now than ever in our history, because some psychoanalysts have turned towards fascism, working in common cause with leading American fascist politicians and political operatives. In this talk, I will review research I undertook as I completed a book on fascism and psychoanalysis, with a special focus on psychoanalysts who have been actively involved in producing and promoting fascist propaganda, particularly regarding trans people, Palestinians, and academics and activists who work to support both those groups. I will contextualize these recent events through a discussion of the longue durée of authoritarianism within psychoanalysis, from Freud forward, and I will conclude with a brief consideration of why the recent and remote historical events I recount make clear the need for an antifascist psychoanalysis.
Presenter
Carter J. Carter, Ph.D, LICSW
Carter J. Carter is, in no particular order: a farmer whose cows have recently learned a new way to escape; assistant professor of clinical psychology at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts; a farmer whose chickens seem to be on strike, which is particularly ironic because Dr. Carter is a labor leader in the union of Massachusetts public college professors and librarians; a former lecturer, and affiliated faculty member in the Psychoanalytic Studies Program, at the University of Pennsylvania, from which they recently resigned in protest (about which more presently); the author of a forthcoming book, “Bound to Lose: How Psychoanalysis Came for Fascism,” as well as a new Substack, Psycho Analyst, which is one of several reasons that their new asparagus beds are overrun with jewelweed. They are at work on their next book, “Field Theory: Agrarianism and Analysis,” which will offer further reports on the cows and chickens and asparagus should anyone be curious in the future.
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