Towards a new Liberation Psychology w/Benji Schoendorff- Psychlib ep.3

In this video, Benji presents the theoretical foundations of a new liberation psychology. He critiques traditional psychoanalysis and dualistic views in psychology and argues for a dialectical materialist psychology. He points to the influence of colonial and capitalist projections on western views of the unconscious and invokes Fanon. He then presents a novel account of the emergence of langage, complex cognition and human consciousness based in recent advances in experimental and developmental psychology. He argues this view provides a more adequate account of individual and collective unconscious processes and the impact of dominant ideology on our unconscious selves and collective identities. He then shows how a fundamental contradiction lies at the heart of the individual capitalist and colonial unconscious between systems built on unequal fundamental human worth and the inextinguible longing for equal fundamental human worth. He concludes by showing how this offers the global movement for human emancipaton a basis to resist unequal, racist and supremacist ideologies. Benji makes the case for a psychology that acknowledges the complexities of human identity and the social context of psychological development that can serve to dismantle of individual and collective oppressive systems, and a path towards liberation.

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Liberation Psychology
01:58 Theoretical Foundations of Psychological Materialism
03:44 Critique of Dualism in Psychology
05:54 Psychoanalysis and Its Limitations
08:09 Revisiting Freud: A Colonial Perspective
10:29 Spinoza and the New Psychoanalysis
13:31 Fanon's Insights on Colonialism and Psychology
14:55 Dialectical Materialism in Psychology
16:39 Hegel, Marx and dialectical materialism
19:07 The Emergence of Human Consciousness
19:53 The emergence and advances of behaviorism
21:19 Language and Complex Cognition
23:16 The Role of Learning Relations in Human Langage Development
25:42 Deriving Relations: The Basis of Language
32:42 The Explosion of Language and Relations
39:42 Emergence of Human Consciousness
40:59 The Emergence of Human Consciousness
46:13 The human pscyhe is a complex dynamic system
48:16 The Impact of Early Self-Meaning
49:35 Early senses of self and the colonizer and colonized minds
53:02 A new Marxist-Fanonian Liberation Psychology
55:40 To the free people of the world - Why resistance can never die
58:03 The limits of individual psychotherapy
59:02 Why the idea of resistance can never be killed
01:01:54 Lenin goes universal
01:02:51 Conclusion, a psychology that rises to the challenge of human emancipation
01:05:00 Towards Self-Determination and Liberation

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