In this episode of the New Psychoanalytic Spaces sub-series, Sophie Mendelsohn responds to questions about the work of the Collectif de Pantin she founded in 2018 and continues to operate in Pantin, a diverse Paris suburb, with a focus on interrogating race in the analytic experience and on observing the effects of taking race, as well as coloniality and postcoloniality, into account in clinical and social contexts. Sophie Mendelsohn reflects on problems of articulating clinical experience to the social and political in Lacanian psychoanalytic institutions in France since 1967, as well as on the notion and necessity of a concrete universal. 

Sophie Mendelsohn has a private psychoanalytic practice in Paris, and she is the author of Vagabondes (Arachnéen, 2015), as well as of many essays. With Livio Boni she has coedited La vie psychique du racisme (La Découverte, 2021) and, most recently, Psychanalyse du reste du monde. Géo-histoire d'une subversion (La Découverte, 2023).

Collectif de Pantin website:
https://www.collectifdepantin.org/

Thanks to Kellen Corrallo for editorial assistance with the audio file.