Besiege your siege with madness: transcendence and liberation
Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society June 11, 2026 Reem Abu Hweij
This essay offers a psycho-spiritual and political intervention against the creeping tide of nihilism amidst the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the broader context of Zionist settler-colonial oppression in Palestine. Drawing from trauma theory, decolonial psychoanalysis, and liberation theology, I argue that the current Palestinian condition demands not resilience within the logic of the...
DOI: 10.1057/s41282-026-00629-1 (opens in new tab)
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Liberation psychology
Decolonial psychology
Liberation madness
Palestine
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