Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization : New Perspectives from Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Sociology.

Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization : New Perspectives from Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Sociology.

Is racial conflict determined by biology or society?So many conflicts appear to be caused by racial and ethnic differences; for example, the cities of Britain and America are regularly affected by race riots. It is argued by socio-biologists and some schools of psychoanalysis that our instincts are...

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Main Author: Dalal, Farhad
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Subjects:
Psychoanalysis and racism.
Race > Psychological aspects.
Race awareness.
Racism.
Psychoanalysis and racism
Race awareness
Race > Psychological aspects
Racism
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization: New Perspectives from Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Sociology
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter I Rethinking race
  • What is race?
  • An overview of the history and use of race
  • Biology of race
  • What is the relationship between the notions of race, culture and ethnicity?
  • Black and white
  • Power
  • Racism: a working definition and a proposition
  • Racism: the emotions and another proposition
  • On the ephemeralness of racism
  • Summary
  • Chapter 2 Psychoanalysis and racism
  • Cautions and caveats
  • Using Freud to think about racism
  • Using Klein to think about racism
  • Using Fairbairn to think about racism
  • Using Winnicott to think about racism
  • Summary
  • Chapter 3 Peeking into the consulting room
  • Metapsychologies: human nature
  • Models of racism and prejudice
  • The problem of the external, and the 'underlying' internal
  • Racism and prejudice in psychoanalytic discourse
  • Against the grain
  • The difficulties and limitations in the psychoanalytic theorization of racism
  • Chapter 4 Other psychoanalytic theories of racism
  • Dollard: frustration-aggression
  • Adorno: the authoritarian personality
  • de Zulueta: relational schemas
  • Rustin: racism as psychosis
  • Kovel: anality
  • Wolfenstein: epidermal fetishism
  • A summation of the journey through the psychoanalytic scene
  • Chapter 5 Fanon: the colonial context
  • Ideology
  • The psychological consequences
  • Psychopathology
  • Liberation
  • Bewilderers: the use of individualism against the native
  • Racialization: the activation of difference by the colonized
  • Nationalism
  • Post-colonialism
  • Chapter 6 Foulkesian group analysis
  • Elements of Foulkesian theory
  • The notion of race
  • Racism
  • Chapter 7 Power: the generator of difference
  • Power.
  • The civilizing process
  • Symbol theory: language, knowledge, mind
  • Emotion
  • a difference with psychoanalysis
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 8 Black and white
  • The physics of 'seeing' black and white
  • Roland Barthes and semiotics
  • The Holy Bible
  • A semantic history of 'black' and 'white'
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 9 Categorization: the vicissitudes of difference
  • Matte-Blanco
  • Reframing the instincts in the language of similarity and difference
  • The Winnicottian schema
  • Kinship: social psychology, sociobiology and Freud
  • Foulkes: rethinking belonging
  • Three modes of mental functioning
  • Sustaining the divide
  • Some conclusions
  • Chapter 10 Racism: the vicissitudes of racialized differences
  • Retrieving uniqueness: three caveats
  • Elements of racism
  • Some implications for the clinical setting
  • Conclusions
  • Afterword: The making of monsters: September 11th 2001
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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