Dismantling Structural Constraints: Challenging the "Punishment Bureaucracy” and Facism in Psychoanalysis

Join us for this embodied and moving conversation with Harrison Guy and Dr. Brianna Suslovic. Our guests teach us how to harness the reconstructive power of the abolitionist movement in order to reimagine a thriving black and queer life. Anchored both in their spirited optimism and capacity to face the brutal realities of injustice, our guests inspire listeners to engage with the yet to be realized possibilities for meaningful action and transformative living. Mentioned in this episode (in order of mention)Kelley, R. D.G. (2003). Freedom dreams: The black radical imagination. Penguin Books.https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/206173/freedom-dreams-by-robin-dg-kelley/DuBois, W.E.B.(1935). Black reconstruction in America: An essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880. Harcourt, Brace and Company.http://www.webdubois.org/wdb-BlackReconst.htmlNo New Prisons Illinois - https://www.chicagoactivismhub.org/detail/2116/Sedgwick, E. K. (1997). Paranoid reading and reparative reading; or, you’re so paranoid, you probably think this introduction is about you. In E. K. Sedgwick (Ed.), Novel gazing: queer readings on fiction (pp.1-38). Duke University Press.https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/636/chapter/128566/Paranoid-Reading-and-Reparative-Reading-or-You-reBoggs, N. (2025). Baldwin: A love story. Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux. https://www.nicholasboggs.com/El-Kurd. M. (2025). Perfect victims: And the politics of appeal. Haymarket. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2499-perfect-victimsProduced by Hangar Studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us for this stirring conversation with Dr. Carter Carter and Alec Karakatsanis. Our guests peel back the curtain and inspire with a paradigm-shifting conversation on how they wrest life from institutions and build communities for themselves and others. By exposing the limits to our imagination when we adhere to the counterintuitive logics of institutionalization, our guests challenge us to think beyond the status quo.Produced by Hangar Studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us for this illuminating conversation with Drs. Mary Kim Brewster, David Eng, and Shinhee Han. Our guests confront the dangerous myths of yellow peril and the model minority in the context of negated geo-political histories. They encourage us to imagine the Asian American subject’s relationality as both “Asian” and “American” and as a necessary condition towards repair and recognition.Episode ReferencesA Dialogue on Racial Melancholia - David Eng & Shinhee HanRacial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic LIves of Asian Americans - David Eng & Shinhee HanReparations and the Human - David EngSister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974 - 1989Caucasia - Danzy SennaJoan Wallach ScottDonald W. Winnicott - Hate in the CountertransferenceProduced by Hangar Studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us for this timely truth-telling conversation with multi-medium artist Kris Grey and author and psychoanalyst, Griffin Hansbury. Our guests crack open the delusions of binary gender and hyper-normativity, bringing forth expansive modes of being and thinking. This episode invites all to experience the pleasure and potency of nuanced subversion and non-conformity.Produced by Hangar Studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us for this poetic and incisive conversation between Foluke Taylor and Jyoti Rao. Our guests explore the toxicity of institutional stasis and the subversive urgency of grief and grievance. Through their conversation they model inclusivity, interdisciplinarity, and intimacy offering us an alternative path through.Produced by Hangar Studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us for this inspiring conversation between Dr. Francisco Gonzalez and Dr. George Makari. Our guests explore the impact of group dynamics on both individuals’ lives and in our collective experiences. Their in-depth analysis helps us to understand how the contradictory experiences of belonging and exclusion continually shape and reshape us.Produced by Hangar Studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us for this eye-opening conversation between Yin Q and Dr. Katie Gentile. Our guests challenge common preconceptions about sex work, kink, and reproductive justice. Through academic rigor and poetic expression, they draw us into unique perspectives on sex worker advocacy and feminism.Produced by Hangar Studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us for a heartfelt conversation between psychoanalyst, Chanda D. Griffin and choreographers, Hilary Brown-Istrefi and Briana Brown-Tipley. Our guests share their embodied and scholarly knowledge about anti-blackness and creativity. They inspire and challenge us to think beyond the confines of white supremacist structures and invite us into new imaginaries.Produced by Hangar Studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us for this incisive and rallying conversation between, Drs. Robert J. Lifton and Sally Weintrobe, as they discuss the obstacles to facing our catastrophes, past, present, and future. Our guests share their personal and scholarly wisdom, pointing us toward the importance of mourning what we have lost and are losing, while encouraging us to sustain hope despite rising demoralization.Produced by Hangar Studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us for this lyrical yet sobering conversation between psychoanalyst, filmmaker, and professor, Dr. Ricardo (Rico) Ainslie and anthropologist, professor and author, Dr. Angela Garcia. Through offering us an intimate look into the communities they work with and belong to, our guests bring us into the lives of those impacted by the historical trauma of land loss, displacement, and suffering. Using an ethnographic approach that is rooted in subject-centered ethics, our guests share clinical wisdom rooted in identifying the absence of institutional recovery programs as the site of community care.Produced by Hangar Studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.