Confronting Normalization with Lara Sheehi

We will continue our series of conversations with Dr. Lara Sheehi on Palestine, Resistance, Settler Colonialism and Decolonial Psychoanalysis. In this episode we will examine the concept of normalization. In particular in terms of how Palestinians talk about this idea in relation to the zionist entity, but also how we can use it as we think about our struggles on Turtle Island and elsewhere, and how we use it in analysis of ongoing war crimes and genocide as well as the Palestinian Resistance.
Lara Sheehi (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar. She is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is on the advisory board for the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network and the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. Lara is currently working on a new book, From the Clinic to the Street: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto, 2025).
Our conversations with Lara Sheehi are all collected in this playlist: • Palestine, Resistance,...
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[@johnstewart7025]

1. There is a power imbalance. 2. Negotiating will not help the weaker party. 3. Dialogue will weaken further the weaker party.

[@alanalentin]

It’s so interesting to me that the interview with Kanafani is carried out by an australian journalist. Let that sink in!

[@MAKCapitalism]

It's Pilger right?

[@axShinsei]

Brilliant and freshening , deep appreciation for this conversation and all who helped bring it into being. Sharing all around.

[@MAKCapitalism]

Thank you so much

[@OscarDiaz-mx8ik]

incredible conversation

[@MAKCapitalism]

❤️

[@Mimicry161]

Wow, Lara is great!

[@johnstewart7025]

Disrupting settler colonialism -- no dialogue.

[@monicaesono-sanchez6403]

glad is replay

[@MAKCapitalism]

always! Thanks for your support

[@Ariya672]

❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥 practice awareness

[@grouchosuave7]

1:03:00 Amen. To bust ass, to be fatigued from struggle, from engagement is LIFE. The fatigue from alienation, from the grind, from forever staving off abuse and despair and desolation, from the nameless daily "normalities" that run roughshod and mindless over you.... well, that is a living death.

[@TraduzindoPalestina]

Jared, can i translate your videos to Brazilian Portuguese?

[@MAKCapitalism]

Sure, if you want to!

[@BettBeat_Media]

Resilience also means not giving up fighting for your people, even if the odds are against you. So, the word can be positive as well. I wouldn't despise it completely, but relate it to context.

[@MAKCapitalism]

We were discussing how it is used in mental health and educational settings. Not all the important ways people are actually resilient.

[@lagrangian3760]

36:00 Ive had debates with people who are fundamentally transphobic as a trans woman trying to change their mind and the cis people witnessing it would talk about how great it is we can have these discussions. I really hated those comments. Now I understand why.

[@MAKCapitalism]

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[@5minuterevolutionary493]

"If living with integrity means living with pain, so be it." Rick and Morty should not be left with the job of informing us of reality. Thanks for the excellent conversation.

[@5minuterevolutionary493]

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