'A waterfall of insurgent thinking, this book sets the direction in which revolutionary theorizing will be moving in the years to come. In resolute and deft moves, Sheehi's willful text cuts open psychoanalytic shibboleths (repair, dialogue, politesse) so we can see for ourselves the counterinsurgencies innervating them. Her radical and unflinching investigation unbendingly centers Palestine to reveal how we are deskilled and psychically intruded, made to feel exhausted, fearful, confused, and despairing. But Sheehi also teaches us how psychoanalysis can re-skill us, arming us with a psychic militancy that can bring the seductions that Zionist, fascist, and colonial logics exert on us to a screeching halt. Sheehi writes for nothing less than to re-arrange the terms by which we relate to the world' Avgi Saketopoulou, psychoanalyst, author of Sexuality Beyond Consent 'This is psychoanalysis reanimated by fierce love and an abolitionist spirit. Rather than turning away from the ways psychoanalysis has been used to stabilise and serve power, Sheehi carefully sets out this history as the ground from which liberatory work can emerge. Fiercely loving, historically grounded, and practical, this book offers intellectual and ethical companionship to practitioners, students, and educators seeking transformative futures. This is psychic militancy by example--in thought, language, and action.

This book is a timely reminder that the question of what psychoanalysis is for is not only unsettled, but re-imaginable, and in our hands' Foluke Taylor, author of Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room.