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

by DALAL; FARHAD

• ISBN13: 9781583912911
• ISBN10: 1583912916
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Farhad Dalal argues that people differentiate between races in order to make a distinction between the "haves" and "must-not-haves", and that this process is cognitive, emotional and political rather than biological. Examining the subject over the past thousand years,Race, Colour and the Process of Racialisationcovers theories of racism and a general theory of difference based on the works of Fanon, Elias, Matte-Blanco and Foulkes, as well as application of this theory to race and racism. Farhad Dalal concludes that the structures of society are reflected in the structures of the psyche, and both of these are colour coded. This book will be invaluable to students, academics and practitioners in the areas of psychoanalysis, group analysis, psychotherapy and counseling.

Table of Contents

List of figures	x
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(8)
Rethinking race	9	(23)
What is race?	9	(3)
An overview of the history and use of race	12	(6)
Biology of race	18	(3)
What is the relationship between the notions of race, culture and ethnicity?	21	(3)
Black and white	24	(3)
Power	27	(1)
Racism: a working definition and a proposition	27	(1)
Racism: the emotions and another proposition	28	(1)
On the ephemeralness of racism	29	(1)
Summary	30	(2)
Psychoanalysis and racism	32	(31)
Cautions and caveats	32	(1)
Using Freud to think about racism	33	(9)
Using Klein to think about racism	42	(8)
Using Fairbairn to think about racism	50	(5)
Using Winnicott to think about racism	55	(4)
Summary	59	(4)
Peeking into the consulting room	63	(19)
Metapsychologies: human nature	64	(4)
Models of racism and prejudice	68	(4)
The problem of the external, and the `underlying' internal	72	(1)
Racism and prejudice in psychoanalytic discourse	73	(3)
Against the grain	76	(1)
The difficulties and limitations in the psychoanalytic theorization of racism	76	(6)
Other psychoanalytic theories of racism	82	(10)
Dollard: frustration-aggression	82	(1)
Adorno: the authoritarian personality	83	(1)
de Zulueta: relational schemas	83	(1)
Rustin: racism as psychosis	84	(1)
Kovel: anality	85	(4)
Wolfenstein: epidermal fetishism	89	(1)
A summation of the journey through the psychoanalytic scene	90	(2)
Fanon: the colonial context	92	(19)
Ideology	93	(2)
The psychological consequences	95	(1)
Psychopathology	96	(5)
Liberation	101	(4)
Bewilderers: the use of individualism against the native	105	(1)
Racialization: the activation of difference by the colonized	106	(2)
Nationalism	108	(1)
Post-colonialism	109	(2)
Foulkesian group analysis	111	(9)
Elements of Foulkesian theory	112	(4)
The notion of race	116	(1)
Racism	116	(4)
Power: the generator of difference	120	(15)
Power	121	(1)
The civilizing process	122	(4)
Symbol theory: language, knowledge, mind	126	(5)
Emotion -- a difference with psychoanalysis	131	(2)
Conclusion	133	(2)
Black and white	135	(36)
The physics of `seeing' black and white	136	(1)
Roland Barthes and semiotics	137	(3)
The Holy Bible	140	(12)
A semantic history of `black' and `white'	152	(16)
Conclusions	168	(3)
Categorization: the vicissitudes of difference	171	(29)
Process reduction: habits of thought	171	(2)
Matte-Blanco	173	(6)
Reframing the instincts in the language of similarity and difference	179	(1)
The Winnicottian schema	180	(1)
Kinship: social psychology, sociobiology and Freud	181	(3)
Foulkes: rethinking belonging	184	(3)
Three modes of mental functioning	187	(3)
Sustaining the divide	190	(7)
Some conclusions	197	(3)
Racism: the vicissitudes of racialized differences	200	(28)
The psyche, coloured and racialized	200	(2)
Retrieving uniqueness: three caveats	202	(1)
Elements of racism	203	(13)
Some implications for the clinical setting	216	(7)
Conclusions	223	(5)
Afterword	228	(2)
Bibliography	230	(9)
Index	239