Stuart Hall, Jacqueline Rose and the politics of the psyche

Abstract

This article is a report on a lecture given in London by Professor Jacqueline Rose on 11 February 2023, organised by the Stuart Hall Foundation as the 6th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation. The lecture was entitled ‘What is a Subject? Politics and Psyche After Stuart Hall’ and was responded to by Dr Sharon Numa. In this lecture, Jacqueline Rose identifies a powerful stream of psychoanalytic thought in Stuart Hall’s writings and articulates a contemporary understanding of Hall’s work as reaching out to what she calls ‘some of the most anguished political and cultural realities of our current times’.