Chanda D Griffin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4682336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chanda D Griffin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chanda D |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffin |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFIN C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Discussion of Body as Estuary
This article engages with “Body as Estuary” by Sal Daña to explore the estuary as both an example and a metaphor for the “mixed” body’s embodiment and relationality. In resonance with the author, I also explore the estuary as a model of self—inherently multiple, fluid, and situated within a broader ecology of relations and counterbinary distinctions, such as human/animal, black/white, and/or male/female. In the practice of placing psychoanalysis …
The White Supremacist Within
This paper explores how White supremacist ideology and anti-Blackness are internalized and shape racialized self-object representations, racial identifications, and counter-identifications that form Black subjectivity and development. Using clinical examples of a same-race dyad and a different-race dyad, the author centers “Blackness” in the subjective experience of her patients and herself, whereby a singular core identity, shaped within a Black…
The Black and White Binary
In responding to the essays written by Annie Lee Jones, Adam Rodriguez, and Lynne Layton, I continue to explore the impact of identifications and disidentifications with Whiteness/anti-Blackness and begin to examine forms of resistance. I propose that the Black-White binary, as a structural and psychic in-between space, which contains racialized multiplicities, be conceptualized as a spectrum. Given the fixedness of the racialized structures of t…
Grief and Loss, Hopes and Desires
Who’s on My Couch? Considering Bipoc Subjectivity and the Climate Crisis
"Who’s on My Couch? Considering BIPOC Subjectivity and the Climate Crisis." Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32(4), pp. 340–341
The Secret Society
This article explores our experience in psychoanalytic training as a three-person cohort (Black, Latina, and White Jewish) in which racialized dynamics were dissociated in the service of completing our training. Acknowledging the tension of both maintaining a sense of our individual identities and connection to the “other,” we examine the disavowal of racial identifications that allowed us to hold each other in the absence of a holding environmen…
The Secret Society
This article explores our experience in psychoanalytic training as a three-person cohort (Black, Latina, and White Jewish) in which racialized dynamics were dissociated in the service of completing our training. Acknowledging the tension of both maintaining a sense of our individual identities and connection to the “other,” we examine the disavowal of racial identifications that allowed us to hold each other in the absence of a holding environmen…
Who’s on My Couch? Considering Bipoc Subjectivity and the Climate Crisis
"Who’s on My Couch? Considering BIPOC Subjectivity and the Climate Crisis." Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32(4), pp. 340–341
Grief and Loss, Hopes and Desires
A Discussion of Body as Estuary
This article engages with “Body as Estuary” by Sal Daña to explore the estuary as both an example and a metaphor for the “mixed” body’s embodiment and relationality. In resonance with the author, I also explore the estuary as a model of self—inherently multiple, fluid, and situated within a broader ecology of relations and counterbinary distinctions, such as human/animal, black/white, and/or male/female. In the practice of placing psychoanalysis …
The White Supremacist Within
This paper explores how White supremacist ideology and anti-Blackness are internalized and shape racialized self-object representations, racial identifications, and counter-identifications that form Black subjectivity and development. Using clinical examples of a same-race dyad and a different-race dyad, the author centers “Blackness” in the subjective experience of her patients and herself, whereby a singular core identity, shaped within a Black…
The Black and White Binary
In responding to the essays written by Annie Lee Jones, Adam Rodriguez, and Lynne Layton, I continue to explore the impact of identifications and disidentifications with Whiteness/anti-Blackness and begin to examine forms of resistance. I propose that the Black-White binary, as a structural and psychic in-between space, which contains racialized multiplicities, be conceptualized as a spectrum. Given the fixedness of the racialized structures of t…
Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (2 works) · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research (2 works) · Cohort (1 work) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 work) · Conversation (1 work) · Educational Leadership and Practices (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Estuary (1 work)