Dorothy Evans Holmes
Biographic Data
| ID | 4055340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorothy Evans Holmes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorothy Evans |
| FAMILY NAME | Holmes |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMES D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Holmes Community College |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-2579-2109 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Essay: Marianne Goldberger: A Mold-Breaking Psychoanalyst in Her Time, and Importantly, for Ours
In Pursuit of Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis: Findings and Recommendations from the Holmes Commission
Getting to Where We Need to Get: A Meaningful Step Towards Understanding and Remedying White Privilege
Anen’s paper adeptly uses a racial lens to psychoanalytically examine an important but neglected aspect of racism, namely how white privilege is deeply rooted in narcissistic states of mind. The white psyche and corollaries such as having whiteness as a psychological condition are a current focus of psychoanalytic writers. Anen’s approach adds significantly to this burgeoning inquiry by adapting additional psychoanalytic tools to the inquiry. He …
Neutrality Is Not Neutral
Challenges and Opportunities in Becoming One’s Own Self: Commentary on Moss
I Do Not Have a Racist Bone in My Body”: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on What is Lost and Not Mourned in Our Culture’s Persistent Racism
Racism is a disavowed marauding presence in the white psyche, a pathological formation that weakens psychic structures and creates a vulnerability to acting out that is hateful, discombobulated, and destructive. Examining it in its cultural, historical, and clinical contexts can enable its conscious ownership and mastery, which entails a process of mourning. Because racism is carried widely in the cultural surround and individually, it must be ad…
Our Country ‘tis of We and Them: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on our Fractured American Identity
Our Country ‘tis of We and Them: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on our Fractured American Identity Dorothy Evans Holmes (bio) I have come to the reflections offered in this paper after considering numerous contrasting cultural events. I will offer psychodynamic understandings of such contrasts. Among the events which undergird my thinking are the following. I wrote (Holmes, 2009) that Barack Obama’s election was possible, in psychodynamic terms, for…
Come Hither, American Psychoanalysis: Our Complex Multicultural America Needs What We Have to Offer
The Wrecking Effects of Race and Social Class on Self and Success
The literature on success neurosis has expanded in recent years to include a consideration of preoedipal as well as oedipal factors. Typically, success neurosis is considered to be a symptomatic result of complex intrapsychic phenomena, whether they be at the oedipal and/or preoedipal level. Having previously considered that success neurosis can also be determined by internalized representations of "real" factors, such as racism and poverty (Holm…
Enrico Edison Jones (1947‐2003)
Key words: Education Section, Obituaries
Enrico Edison Jones (1947–2003)
Key words: Education Section, Obituaries
Emerging Indicators Of Ego Growth And Associated Resistances
In this paper the technique of resistance analysis is extended beyond a focus on defenses against aggressive drive derivatives to include a focus on resistances based on libidinal conflicts and resistances which stem from defenses against accessing and using autonomous ego functions. For example, patients may resist progress by forming primary defenses against expression of joyful affects, increased capacity to think, and/or new possibilities for…
The Wrecking Effects of Race and Social Class on Self and Success
The literature on success neurosis has expanded in recent years to include a consideration of preoedipal as well as oedipal factors. Typically, success neurosis is considered to be a symptomatic result of complex intrapsychic phenomena, whether they be at the oedipal and/or preoedipal level. Having previously considered that success neurosis can also be determined by internalized representations of "real" factors, such as racism and poverty (Holm…
I Do Not Have a Racist Bone in My Body”: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on What is Lost and Not Mourned in Our Culture’s Persistent Racism
Racism is a disavowed marauding presence in the white psyche, a pathological formation that weakens psychic structures and creates a vulnerability to acting out that is hateful, discombobulated, and destructive. Examining it in its cultural, historical, and clinical contexts can enable its conscious ownership and mastery, which entails a process of mourning. Because racism is carried widely in the cultural surround and individually, it must be ad…
Come Hither, American Psychoanalysis: Our Complex Multicultural America Needs What We Have to Offer
Our Country ‘tis of We and Them: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on our Fractured American Identity
Our Country ‘tis of We and Them: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on our Fractured American Identity Dorothy Evans Holmes (bio) I have come to the reflections offered in this paper after considering numerous contrasting cultural events. I will offer psychodynamic understandings of such contrasts. Among the events which undergird my thinking are the following. I wrote (Holmes, 2009) that Barack Obama’s election was possible, in psychodynamic terms, for…
In Pursuit of Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis: Findings and Recommendations from the Holmes Commission
Neutrality Is Not Neutral
Emerging Indicators Of Ego Growth And Associated Resistances
In this paper the technique of resistance analysis is extended beyond a focus on defenses against aggressive drive derivatives to include a focus on resistances based on libidinal conflicts and resistances which stem from defenses against accessing and using autonomous ego functions. For example, patients may resist progress by forming primary defenses against expression of joyful affects, increased capacity to think, and/or new possibilities for…
Emerging Indicators Of Ego Growth And Associated Resistances
In this paper the technique of resistance analysis is extended beyond a focus on defenses against aggressive drive derivatives to include a focus on resistances based on libidinal conflicts and resistances which stem from defenses against accessing and using autonomous ego functions. For example, patients may resist progress by forming primary defenses against expression of joyful affects, increased capacity to think, and/or new possibilities for…
Enrico Edison Jones (1947‐2003)
Key words: Education Section, Obituaries
Enrico Edison Jones (1947–2003)
Key words: Education Section, Obituaries
The Wrecking Effects of Race and Social Class on Self and Success
The literature on success neurosis has expanded in recent years to include a consideration of preoedipal as well as oedipal factors. Typically, success neurosis is considered to be a symptomatic result of complex intrapsychic phenomena, whether they be at the oedipal and/or preoedipal level. Having previously considered that success neurosis can also be determined by internalized representations of "real" factors, such as racism and poverty (Holm…
Come Hither, American Psychoanalysis: Our Complex Multicultural America Needs What We Have to Offer
Our Country ‘tis of We and Them: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on our Fractured American Identity
Our Country ‘tis of We and Them: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on our Fractured American Identity Dorothy Evans Holmes (bio) I have come to the reflections offered in this paper after considering numerous contrasting cultural events. I will offer psychodynamic understandings of such contrasts. Among the events which undergird my thinking are the following. I wrote (Holmes, 2009) that Barack Obama’s election was possible, in psychodynamic terms, for…
Challenges and Opportunities in Becoming One’s Own Self: Commentary on Moss
I Do Not Have a Racist Bone in My Body”: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on What is Lost and Not Mourned in Our Culture’s Persistent Racism
Racism is a disavowed marauding presence in the white psyche, a pathological formation that weakens psychic structures and creates a vulnerability to acting out that is hateful, discombobulated, and destructive. Examining it in its cultural, historical, and clinical contexts can enable its conscious ownership and mastery, which entails a process of mourning. Because racism is carried widely in the cultural surround and individually, it must be ad…
Getting to Where We Need to Get: A Meaningful Step Towards Understanding and Remedying White Privilege
Anen’s paper adeptly uses a racial lens to psychoanalytically examine an important but neglected aspect of racism, namely how white privilege is deeply rooted in narcissistic states of mind. The white psyche and corollaries such as having whiteness as a psychological condition are a current focus of psychoanalytic writers. Anen’s approach adds significantly to this burgeoning inquiry by adapting additional psychoanalytic tools to the inquiry. He …
Neutrality Is Not Neutral
In Pursuit of Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis: Findings and Recommendations from the Holmes Commission
Essay: Marianne Goldberger: A Mold-Breaking Psychoanalyst in Her Time, and Importantly, for Ours
Psychology (11 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (4 works) · Art (3 works)