Psychoanalysis, Palestine, and solidarity now

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This article sets out the historical political context for building solidarity with Palestine, with a history designed to show that we need to beware of ‘campism’ as the misleading idea that the world is divided into a reactionary camp, that is the West and Israel, and a supposedly progressive camp; the Western states allied with Israel are for sure our enemy, but the enemy of our enemy is not necessarily our friend. This sets the stage for a discussion of ‘psychoanalysis under occupation’, which foregrounds the role of psychoanalysis as to disturb, unsettle, and—linked to an engaged critical analysis of culture and society—to change the internal and external world, to break the silence of psychoanalysts about Palestine.

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2025
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23
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3
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Ian Parker (2025). Psychoanalysis, Palestine, and solidarity now. Psychotherapy and Politics International , 23 (3) , 1-9. https://doi.org/10.24135/ppi.v23i3.06

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