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Politically Unconscious: The Psychic Aftermath of the Sudanese Revolution — Mohamed Khougali (Out June 24)

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Written by Mohamed Khougali

ISBN-13: 9798295876950 (Softcover)

172 pages
Publication Date: 24 June 2026

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Politically Unconscious: The Psychic Aftermath of the Sudanese Revolution is Mohamed Khougali's reflection on what it means to organize and think after a revolution has been usurped. Written as both a participant in Sudan's 2018-19 uprising and a working psychotherapist, Khougali weaves together a history of the Sudanese Left, an account of the current war and the racialized financialization that informed the various factions, alongside the development of a new clinical modality he calls "praxis psychotherapy."

Refusing the reductive binaries of international media coverage and the moral puritanism he sees paralyzing contemporary leftist thought, Khougali argues that Sudan cannot be understood apart from a longer "irrational revolution" linking Khartoum to Darfur, and Sudan to Palestine, through the same circuits of imperial accumulation and waste. At once political history and clinical experiment, Politically Unconsciousis a work with lessons for comrades involved in the struggle—in Sudan, and far beyond.


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Written by Mohamed Khougali

ISBN-13: 9798295876950 (Softcover)

172 pages
Publication Date: 24 June 2026

—

Politically Unconscious: The Psychic Aftermath of the Sudanese Revolution is Mohamed Khougali's reflection on what it means to organize and think after a revolution has been usurped. Written as both a participant in Sudan's 2018-19 uprising and a working psychotherapist, Khougali weaves together a history of the Sudanese Left, an account of the current war and the racialized financialization that informed the various factions, alongside the development of a new clinical modality he calls "praxis psychotherapy."

Refusing the reductive binaries of international media coverage and the moral puritanism he sees paralyzing contemporary leftist thought, Khougali argues that Sudan cannot be understood apart from a longer "irrational revolution" linking Khartoum to Darfur, and Sudan to Palestine, through the same circuits of imperial accumulation and waste. At once political history and clinical experiment, Politically Unconsciousis a work with lessons for comrades involved in the struggle—in Sudan, and far beyond.

Blurbs

The civil war in Sudan that has claimed the lives of thousands and has displaced millions reveals a story of capitalist accumulation, dispossession, imperialism, class struggle and broader regional dynamics. Dominant accounts often posit binary readings and lay blame between warring factions. Mohamed Khougali’s critical intervention forces the reader to look beyond these reductive approaches and offers an analysis that includes political-economy, history and psychoanalysis. Offering a dialectical account of Sudan, Khougali connects the current juncture and its attendant crises to a broader totality. The result is a rare work that is at once theoretically rigorous and politically urgent. At a moment of profound upheaval, this book stands as an important intervention in the ongoing struggle for liberation in Sudan and beyond.
—Momodou Taal, editor, Vox Ummah.