Surviving Hating and Being Hated

White, Kathleen Pogue

doi:10.1080/00107530.2002.10747173

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“…I think her modification is much in line with my modification of openly discussing societal religious conflicts and my willingness to examine my own religious preconceptions. White (2002) writes movingly of her experiences of racial hatred (she is Black), and in her case material, of being hated, hating the self and hating the other. She relates her work with a White man who had unconscious identifications with his childhood Black family servants.…”

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An antisemitic transference and countertransference

White

2022

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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The author presents a clinical psychoanalysis in which his Jewish patient fears that her non‐Jewish analyst hates her for being Jewish. Antisemitic expressions of hate toward the analyst have been well‐documented, but a fear of the analyst's hateful transference to the patient has not been previously examined in a published report. This transference led to an impasse in the treatment and prompted exploration of countertransference on the analyst's part; was he, unconsciously, expressing any religious hatred? The author examines a technical question of whether such a transference can be analyzed in the usual way as a displacement of infantile trauma? Or do the antisemitic aspects of the transference need to be examined and understood in their cultural and religious implications first and then analyzed as a real aspect in the external world before its infantile roots can be exposed? In this particular case, the author concludes that the latter approach is necessary and useful to facilitating clinical progress. The author suggests that this approach may be applicable to other analyses where there are racial, class, or religious differences and the patient develops fears about the analyst's attitude. The author offers this case as an example of the necessary integration of cultural and sociological issues into the classical model of intrapsychic conflict.

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“…For Gila, the anticipation of attack was paralyzing; she would go into a panic state that she described as a tornado; all she can do was shrink and withdraw. She had developed what White (2002) calls a survival shell, an unconscious insulation against racial hatred.…”

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An antisemitic transference and countertransference

White

2022

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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“…Although approaching Black subjects by means of what is psychically represented may help bestow upon them their long-refused humanity (i.e., in acknowledging how anti-Blackness marks psychic life), it may also refuse them the humanity of an unconscious that can do the work of revision in the après-coup. This is not to discard the former: it is critically important in its own right and we urgently need to rectify the poor record of psychoanalysis vis-à-vis race/racism (Stephens 2022; White 2002; Vaughans 2017; Jones 2020; Holmes 2019).…”

Section: Implications Of Laplanche’s Theory For Thinking Racializationmentioning

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Anti-Racist Racism: Trauma, Traumatism, Traumatophilia

Saketopoulou¹

2022

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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A particular epistemology of trauma now wields an outsized hold over psychoanalysis. Trauma, we are trained to think, has destructive effects whose ghostly lingerings can, nevertheless, be durably turned into ancestors. But what if we got this wrong? What if trauma is not a piece of shrapnel to be removed but a cause of becoming? And what if the tenet that trauma may be worked through is but a manifestation of a disciplinary spell? Introduction of the concept of traumatophobia invites readers to rethink the relationship of psychoanalysis to healing or repair, and to become attentive, instead, to what subjects do with trauma ( traumatophilia). Traumatophilia involves a revivification of trauma, and that is easily confused with compulsive repetition or destructiveness. Traumatophobia, however, also courts psychic energies that can be psychically transformative. For transformation to be possible, however, we need to be working with a notion of psychic life that can be transformed. Careful consideration of a controversial sexual fetish (race play) shows how belated efforts of psychoanalysis to attend to racial trauma have generated new forms of racism: treating the Black unconscious not as a transformative and dynamic force but as housing only repressed representational contents. Considering race play instead through traumatophilia allows a race player’s actions to be mined not for unconscious motives or for what past traumata, symbolized or unformulated, those motives carry, but to track their effects. Traumatophilic repetitions, it is argued, deliver traumatisms that may (or may not) be transformational. Questions of ethics are thus central to this paper’s thinking, which is grounded in queer of color critique, Black feminisms, and Laplanchean metapsychology. Because traumatophobia preserves the world order (and thus white logics), readers are urged to consider the metapsychology of traumatophilia.

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“…Speaking to probable lapses in her formal training, Wallerstein does not cite African American socio-political assertions that defend against fears of annihilation, such as Blacks Lives Matter or those that through their healthy grandiosity, celebrate Blackness, such as Nina Simone's Young Gifted and Black, (Simone & Irvine, 1969). In addition, there is the absence of reference to the works coming out of the psychoanalytic tradition by thinkers such as Fanon (2008), Holmes (2006), Leary (2002), andWhite (2002), among others. Lacking is a familiarity with more racially informed, and clinically grounded work around the psychosis of enactments, conflicts and defenses.…”

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Discussion of “Hunting the Real”

Adams¹

2020

Psychoanalytic Perspectives

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In her paper, "Hunting the Real" Wallerstein discusses the challenges of providing good-enough clinical services on an under-resourced in-patient psychiatric unit, with African American males experiencing various types of psychosis. I comment from a variety of perspectives including, culture, institutionalized racism, and the under-thematization of Blackness in psychoanalytic theory and clinical technique.

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Surviving Hating and Being Hated

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An antisemitic transference and countertransference

An antisemitic transference and countertransference

Anti-Racist Racism: Trauma, Traumatism, Traumatophilia

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