This Lacan in Scotland seminar “Ye: Anti-Christ?” took place 25 April 2024 on Zoom. Dr Robert Beshara reflects on Kanye West AKA Ye’s ethics, politics and aesthetics of his latest music project Vultures 1 in relation to his manic-depressive subjectivity. The event is chaired by Professor Calum Neill, Director of Lacan in Scotland, and is followed by a discussion.

Video Sections:

0:00 – Intro
02:02 – Presentation
01:02:45 – Q&A with Calum & Audience

About the Event

In this Lacan Scotland talk, Dr Robert Beshara will build on his work in A Psychoanalytic Biography of Ye: The Legacy of Unconditional Love, which covers five years in Kanye West’s career (2016-2021), to reflect further on the ethics, politics, and aesthetics of his latest music project Vultures 1–his collaboration with Ty Dolla $ign. The talk will focus, in particular, on the question of fascism while also considering the specificity of Ye’s manic-depressive subjectivity.

About the Speaker

Robert K. Beshara, Ph.D., is the author of Decolonial Psychoanalysis: Towards Critical Islamophobia Studies (Routledge, 2019), Freud and Said: Contrapuntal Psychoanalysis as Liberation Praxis(Palgrave, 2021), A Psychoanalytic Biography of Ye: The Legacy of Unconditional Love (Cambridge Scholars, 2023), and Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory: A Study of Youssef Chahine’s al-Masir (Bloomsbury, 2024). He is also the editor of A Critical Introduction to Psychology (Nova, 2019) and Critical Psychology Praxis: Psychosocial Non-Alignment to Modernity/Coloniality (Routledge, 2021). Further, he is the translator of Mourad Wahba’s (1995) Fundamentalism and Secularization(Bloomsbury, 2022). He is the founder of the Critical Psychology website: www.criticalpsychology.org. Finally, he works as Associate Professor of Psychology & Humanities and Chair of Arts & Human Sciences at Northern New Mexico College. For more information, please visit www.robertbeshara.com.