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This seminar explores how psychoanalytic theories might be able to recover the energy and creativity needed to cope in a damaged world, let alone to heal this world. We will consider classical, marginalized, and contemporary contributions to psychoanalysis, as well as one or two exemplary literary texts as we discuss the psychosocial demands of collective trauma, the promises of decolonizing the unconscious, and the charge to mourn hopes for a better future, or any future, for that matter.