Narcissistic wounds, race and racism: a comment on Frantz Fanon’s critical engagement with psychoanalysis

Borossa, Julia

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“…Sachs returned to Johannesburg seeking to consolidate the institutional basis of psychoanalysis in his adopted country and spread a general understanding of Freudian thought; he assembled a small group of like-minded colleagues to help him in this endeavor. As a whole, his project involved an explicit challenge to the hierarchical assumptions of colonial psychiatry with the help of psychoanalysis' own universal categories, and in this he can be seen as a somewhat less radical precursor to Frantz Fanon (Borossa 2007). For example, Sachs (1933) published an account of his work with African patients in an asylum in Pretoria called "The Insane Native: An Introduction to a Psychological Study. "…”

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Psychology and Politics: Intersections of Science and Ideology in the History of Psy-Sciences

2022

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IntroductionPsy-sciences (psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, pedagogy, criminology, special education, etc.) have been connected to politics in diverse ways during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This relationship manifests itself either through direct political pressure or through more general and subtle interactions between cultural and social processes and scientific currents and practices. The book collects ideas and findings on the history and politics of psy-sciences including scientific and theoretical discourses, institutions, and professionals. This volume will allow us to compare the development of the psy-sciences and the institutions in which they are practiced in Eastern European with developments in other regions.Concerning the history of these disciplines, demarcations and shifts instigated by power relations can be found within scientific movements and schools in the field of psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis. But when closely investigated, politics can also be grasped in the epistemology of psysciences and in the governmental practices based on them. Human relations, emotions, everyday ethical principles, etc. have become conceivable in psychological terms, thus giving way to practices of normalization, as well as their utilization and manipulation by political decision-makers and diverse institutions. What is the form and dissemination of certain regimes of truth as they are reformed and as they become the center of old and new ideological struggles? What are the historical-political processes that influence the fields of psy-knowledge, inducing transformations of professional perceptions of the 1 The research team was formed within the Social and Cultural Psychology Group of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The team was headed by Anna Borgos and its members included Balázs Berkovits, Ferenc Erős, Melinda Friedrich, Júlia Gyimesi, Melinda Kovai, and Dóra Máriási. The research was funded by the Hungarian National Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) between 2013 and 2017. The history of our research group goes back to the late 2000s, when the editors of the present volume, in collaboration with other colleagues, began their systematic explorations into the history of Hungarian psychoanalysis, as well as delved into the methodological and epistemological questions, gender issues, and cultural and political aspects related to it.

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“…The interplay between one group's development against other and its societal treatment within the context of narcissistic discourse remains an area that necessitates further exploration. To explore the connection between narcissistic wounds and racial prejudices, Julia Borossa (2007) comments, "Undone by the gaze of a white child who speaks, necessarily, in the register of the symbolic, the black man realizes that his place is not subject but other. In the very moment where he is seen not as a man, but as a black man, he is created as other by the cultural ideas of white society" (p. 121).…”

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‘A Community Under Siege’: Analysing Kohut’s Thoughts of ‘Narcissistic Rage’ in Githa Hariharan’s Fugitive Histories

Midya,

Mishra

2024

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This paper looks at the operational mechanics of narcissistic rage as a subversive force within the poignant depiction of communal violence in Githa Hariharan’s novel Fugitive Histories, utilizing a psychoanalytical lens inspired by the insights of Kohut. This exploration aims to unravel the intricate nexus between the phenomenon of riot and narcissistic tendencies, scrutinizing the concept of collective narcissism as it pertains to social communities. Employing Kohut’s in-depth study of group psychology, the research delves into the transformative dynamics of narcissistic rage and its consequential impact on instances of communal upheaval. The paper culminates in a discussion highlighting the potential role of empathy as a mitigating agent against the perils of narcissistic rage.

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Narcissistic wounds, race and racism: a comment on Frantz Fanon’s critical engagement with psychoanalysis

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Psychology and Politics: Intersections of Science and Ideology in the History of Psy-Sciences

Psychology and Politics: Intersections of Science and Ideology in the History of Psy-Sciences

‘A Community Under Siege’: Analysing Kohut’s Thoughts of ‘Narcissistic Rage’ in Githa Hariharan’s Fugitive Histories

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