A Crisis in the Subjectivity of the Analyst: The Trauma of Morality

Straker, Gillian

doi:10.1080/10481880701346662

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“…This inevitability is picked up by Straker (2004b) who argues that analysts need to be aware of not only negative but also positive stereotyping which is also a denigrating of the other by repressing difference and thereby denying the subjectivity of the other. What is striking in these and other similar contributions (Straker, 2007a;Suchet, 2007b) is the honesty with which these women explore the otherness within, frequently admitting to complicity in racist and stereotyping thoughts and behaviors. Perhaps it is this honesty that allows for the transformative experiences that they describe, transformative for themselves as therapists as well as for their patients.…”

Section: Psychoanalysis and Racementioning

confidence: 68%

“…As analysts have begun to address and write about racial identity and racial enactments in therapy (e.g., Altman, 2009;Straker, 2004aStraker, , 2004bStraker, , 2007aStraker, , 2007bSuchet, 2004Suchet, , 2007aSuchet, , 2007b, the extent to which the impact of race is denied, largely by White therapists, and the significantly negative consequences of such denial for individual therapeutic progress as well as for the perception of psychoanalysis by Black and lower class populations has come into sharp relief. Race and racism emerge in the therapy room, not inside individuals, but enacted in the analytic relationship.…”

Section: Psychoanalysis and Racementioning

confidence: 99%

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Research Entanglements, Race, and Recognizability: A Psychosocial Reading of Interview Encounters in (Post-) Colonial, (Post-) Apartheid South Africa

Young

2010

Qualitative Inquiry

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Psychoanalysis has become increasingly concerned with issues of race and class and the ways in which they play themselves out in the therapy room. Alongside other psychosocial scholars concerned with the interleaving of the self and other, the psychological and the social, I argue that psychoanalysis is a valuable resource, particularly, as demonstrated in this article, for thinking through how we might theorize and "read" race and class in interview contexts when conducting qualitative research. Interview moments between myself, the researcher-a White, middle-class, educated, South African woman-and the researched-Black, working-class, lesser educated, South African men-are subjected to a psychosocial reading drawing specifically on Lacanian psychoanalysis which emphasizes a critical, tentative approach that aims to disrupt understanding.

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Section: Psychoanalysis and Racementioning

confidence: 68%

Section: Psychoanalysis and Racementioning

confidence: 99%

Research Entanglements, Race, and Recognizability: A Psychosocial Reading of Interview Encounters in (Post-) Colonial, (Post-) Apartheid South Africa

Young

2010

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“…There are many ways in which we have begun doing so. The effects of historical trauma, political trouble, and war have been picked up recently, for example, in the work of Davoine andGaudilliere (2004), Puget (2003), Straker (2007), and Harris and Botticelli (2010). We are considering Race and Class (Altman, 2010;Layton, 2006;Suchet, 2004), and needless to say gender politics.…”

Section: The Responsibility Of the Psychoanalytic Theoriamentioning

confidence: 98%