“To say psychoanalysis doesn’t have political resonance is to deprive ourselves of a key form of modern knowledge.” Jacqueline Rose, pictured in 2018
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Asa child, Jacqueline Rose’s bus ride to her grammar school would take her from a middle-class home in Hayes on the outskirts of west London through the working-class south Asian immigrant communities of Southall, where New Zealand schoolteacher Blair Peach would later be killed in 1979 while protesting against the National Front; it would then wind past a famous asylum in Hounslow, over whose thick walls Rose peered.