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Lara Shihai

Psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, and author specializing in decolonial psychoanalysis and revolutionary praxis, particularly in Palestinian resistance and liberation struggles.

Jul 21, 2026

15:07
So, yeah, what did it reveal to you, this encounter, I guess?
15:11
Yeah.
15:12
Many things, like you said, I went back and forth about, do I start with this example? Because it's an example that has lived with me for a long time and I've worked through it in other spaces.
15:22
And then I realized it animates so much that I need to start with this.
15:26
It animates so much because it implicates the field.
15:29
It animates so much because his ability to come into that space and know he could is precisely what I'm trying to do.
15:38
bring readers to, that there's an entire infrastructure that is already set in place where a Zionist vigilante can come into that space and understand that he will not be ejected because he holds what he thinks is the normative position.

48 MINS LATER

64:00
So I'd like to hear a little bit more about this kind of unbending commitment to the precondition of liberation and extremism and how we can sort of hold that in psychic militancy.

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