Psychanalyse et race: silences psychiques et politiques
This presentation explores the place of race within psychology and psychoanalysis, drawing on Ayouch’s recent book La Race sur le divan (2024). Specialised in race and postcolonial studies as well as queer and gender studies, Ayouch offers a critical examination of psychology and psychoanalysis as historically white and colour-blind disciplines. Challenging this legacy, the talk argues for the necessity of integrating race into both the objects and epistemologies of clinical practice. Moving beyond analyses of racism as solely a macro-social structure, Ayouch examines its subjective and psychic effects, showing how race is lived, negotiated, and internalised within intimate and therapeutic spaces. By bringing questions of race onto the psychoanalytic couch, this work opens up important and challenging dialogues for scholars and practitioners in sociology, anthropology, and the social sciences more broadly.
The full abstract will be shared soon.
About the speaker
Thamy Ayouch is a psychoanalyst whose work bridges race and postcolonial studies with queer and gender studies. His research critically interrogates the racialised foundations of psychology and psychoanalysis, advocating for approaches that take seriously the psychic dimensions of domination, inequality, and lived experience.
When: January 26th, 10:00 AM until 12:00 PM
Where: ULB, Campus Solbosch, Building S, 12th Floor, Room Rokkan or online (Teams)
This event will take place in French
