The second lecture in the Mahmoud Alnaouq lecture series was presented by Angelita Biscotti, a tutor and lecturer at the University of Melbourne. This lecture explores the liberatory potential of psychoanalysis using decolonial reworkings of key psychoanalytic concepts such as transference, resistance and free association. The lecture discusses two cases from Lara and Stephen Sheehi's "Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine." 

Mahmoud Alnaouq was a recipient of an Australia Awards scholarship who had listed the University of Melbourne as his first preference for a Master of International Relations. He would have been with us on campus today, but the Zionist Israeli regime killed him, along with 19 members of his family, in the town of Deir Al Balah last October. The Mahmoud Alnaouq lecture series is held in his honour outside Mahmoud's Hall, formerly known as Arts West, in the University of Melbourne. 

Angelita Biscotti's contact info: http://angelitabiscotti.com.au

For more information about the lecture series and the pro-Palestine student movement at the University of Melbourne: http://instagram.com/unimelbforpalestine

Resistance is Justified: Psychoanalytic Resistance as a Refusal of the Coloniser's Frames

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