M Fakhry Davids
Biographic Data
| ID | 4126237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Fakhry Davids |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Fakhry |
| FAMILY NAME | Davids |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIDS M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Psychoanalytical Society |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Challenges to maintaining the analytic frame during the 2023/24 war on Gaza
In Pursuit of Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis: Findings and Recommendations from the Holmes Commission
Interpretation as Hypothesis
Two distinct spaces can be seen as operating in a session—a private one in the analyst’s mind, where formulations take shape, and one shared between patient and analyst, in which interpretations are offered. By maintaining a focus on the here and now in the latter space, taking care to protect it from intrusions from the analyst’s theory except as hypotheses (in the form of interpretations derived from those formulations) aimed at eliciting uncon…
Race and Analytic Neutrality: Clinical and Theoretical Considerations
Neutrality remains a key concept underpinning the psychoanalytic attitude, but its operation in the clinical setting must be reconfigured if the countertransference is to be used as a source of data, conveyed by projective identification. Subjective responses thus mobilized in the analyst need to be processed before attention can return to the evenly suspended state, from which greater objectivity flows. Theory, internalized as part of the analys…
Mourning in America
A s the pandemic has deepened and the pervasive mood of uncer- tainty in the country has taken hold, we turned to a reconsideration of the problem of mourning and its vicissitudes, to what allows mourning to take place and what can impede it, both psychically and in society.This panel was held virtually in September 2021, in the wake of the twentieth anniversary of 9/11.It was meant in part to be a revisiting of Freud's 1917 foundational text, "M…
A Discussion of “‘When Reparation Is Felt to Be Impossible’: Persecutory Guilt and Breakdowns in Thinking and Dialogue about Race”
Jane Caflisch’s discussion (this issue) of white liberal guilt is recognized as a bold and ground-breaking exploration of how the Kleinian concepts of paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions may shed light on the question of reparation for racial injustice. I suggest that, in addition to persecutory and depressive guilt, melancholic guilt also operates in racist mind-sets, and constitutes the more serious obstacle to reparation. Guilt of this …
Psychoanalysis and black lives
This paper suggests that being black in a white majority world attracts powerful racist projections whose cumulative effect can be deeply traumatising, a problem that has not received due attention in mainstream psychoanalysis. This theme is developed through a description of how this difficulty, and the patient's inner response to it, came to light at the beginning of an analysis. The patient, who grew up as the only brown-skinned child in his w…
Innerer Rassismus: Eine psychoanalytische Annäherung an race und Differenz
M. Fakhry Davids entwirft eine detaillierte Theorie über die Internalisierungsprozesse rassistischer Inhalte und die Entstehung rassistischer Einstellungen. Er postuliert ein unbewusstes rassistisches Abwehrsystem, das sich aus individuellen und kulturellen Bildern zusammensetzt und in Momenten krisenhafter Erschütterung als bisher latenter »innerer« Rassismus plötzlich manifest wird. Darüber hinaus geht Davids von einem pathologischen Rassismus …
Psychoanalysis and Palestine-Israel: A personal angle
Internal Racism
Racism's external forms, from racial assault to petty discrimination, are readily recognized. However, its internal dimensions are easily overlooked: how can we understand what happens in the mind of
Psychoanalysis and black lives
This paper suggests that being black in a white majority world attracts powerful racist projections whose cumulative effect can be deeply traumatising, a problem that has not received due attention in mainstream psychoanalysis. This theme is developed through a description of how this difficulty, and the patient's inner response to it, came to light at the beginning of an analysis. The patient, who grew up as the only brown-skinned child in his w…
Race and Analytic Neutrality: Clinical and Theoretical Considerations
Neutrality remains a key concept underpinning the psychoanalytic attitude, but its operation in the clinical setting must be reconfigured if the countertransference is to be used as a source of data, conveyed by projective identification. Subjective responses thus mobilized in the analyst need to be processed before attention can return to the evenly suspended state, from which greater objectivity flows. Theory, internalized as part of the analys…
In Pursuit of Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis: Findings and Recommendations from the Holmes Commission
Psychoanalysis and Palestine-Israel: A personal angle
Challenges to maintaining the analytic frame during the 2023/24 war on Gaza
Mourning in America
A s the pandemic has deepened and the pervasive mood of uncer- tainty in the country has taken hold, we turned to a reconsideration of the problem of mourning and its vicissitudes, to what allows mourning to take place and what can impede it, both psychically and in society.This panel was held virtually in September 2021, in the wake of the twentieth anniversary of 9/11.It was meant in part to be a revisiting of Freud's 1917 foundational text, "M…
Internal Racism
Racism's external forms, from racial assault to petty discrimination, are readily recognized. However, its internal dimensions are easily overlooked: how can we understand what happens in the mind of
Psychoanalysis and Palestine-Israel: A personal angle
Innerer Rassismus: Eine psychoanalytische Annäherung an race und Differenz
M. Fakhry Davids entwirft eine detaillierte Theorie über die Internalisierungsprozesse rassistischer Inhalte und die Entstehung rassistischer Einstellungen. Er postuliert ein unbewusstes rassistisches Abwehrsystem, das sich aus individuellen und kulturellen Bildern zusammensetzt und in Momenten krisenhafter Erschütterung als bisher latenter »innerer« Rassismus plötzlich manifest wird. Darüber hinaus geht Davids von einem pathologischen Rassismus …
A Discussion of “‘When Reparation Is Felt to Be Impossible’: Persecutory Guilt and Breakdowns in Thinking and Dialogue about Race”
Jane Caflisch’s discussion (this issue) of white liberal guilt is recognized as a bold and ground-breaking exploration of how the Kleinian concepts of paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions may shed light on the question of reparation for racial injustice. I suggest that, in addition to persecutory and depressive guilt, melancholic guilt also operates in racist mind-sets, and constitutes the more serious obstacle to reparation. Guilt of this …
Psychoanalysis and black lives
This paper suggests that being black in a white majority world attracts powerful racist projections whose cumulative effect can be deeply traumatising, a problem that has not received due attention in mainstream psychoanalysis. This theme is developed through a description of how this difficulty, and the patient's inner response to it, came to light at the beginning of an analysis. The patient, who grew up as the only brown-skinned child in his w…
Race and Analytic Neutrality: Clinical and Theoretical Considerations
Neutrality remains a key concept underpinning the psychoanalytic attitude, but its operation in the clinical setting must be reconfigured if the countertransference is to be used as a source of data, conveyed by projective identification. Subjective responses thus mobilized in the analyst need to be processed before attention can return to the evenly suspended state, from which greater objectivity flows. Theory, internalized as part of the analys…
Mourning in America
A s the pandemic has deepened and the pervasive mood of uncer- tainty in the country has taken hold, we turned to a reconsideration of the problem of mourning and its vicissitudes, to what allows mourning to take place and what can impede it, both psychically and in society.This panel was held virtually in September 2021, in the wake of the twentieth anniversary of 9/11.It was meant in part to be a revisiting of Freud's 1917 foundational text, "M…
Interpretation as Hypothesis
Two distinct spaces can be seen as operating in a session—a private one in the analyst’s mind, where formulations take shape, and one shared between patient and analyst, in which interpretations are offered. By maintaining a focus on the here and now in the latter space, taking care to protect it from intrusions from the analyst’s theory except as hypotheses (in the form of interpretations derived from those formulations) aimed at eliciting uncon…
In Pursuit of Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis: Findings and Recommendations from the Holmes Commission
Challenges to maintaining the analytic frame during the 2023/24 war on Gaza
Psychology (8 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (6 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Countertransference (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)