Fantasy in Interracial Groups
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2275469 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert D Rossel (Southern Illinois University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 50-66 |
| Publication date | 1970-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1970.tb02075.x |
| OpenAlex | W2029523927 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
BEHAVIORAL SCIENTISTS have acquired an expanding knowledge and appreciation of the significance of projection, not only as an individual mechanism for dealing with potentially troublesome unconscious wishes and emotions, but also as a socially shared group process (Horwitz and Cartwright, 1963; Henry and Guetzkow, 1951). Fantasy is an important dimension in the life of a group in that it provides members with an opportunity to communicate about latent emotional problems confronted in the group without making them explicit, and therefore, potentially disruptive (Mills, 1964a; Slater, 1961; 1966). By displacing feelings and wishes generated in the group on characters and situations depicted in stories, participants may reveal sentiments normally suppressed and hidden from view. The analysis of fantasy material would therefore seem to be particularly valuable in approaching the emotional dynamics of interracial groups, not only because it gives the researcher access to information usually denied him through other methods of inquiry, but also because it gives the group member an opportunity to reveal sentiments that he may ordinarily feel socially inappropriate. In interracial groups of fairly extensive and intimate contact, blacks and whites, perhaps for the first time, encounter a situation that is not easily grasped in terms of their pre-existing cultural models of the interpersonal world. How do they go about making emotional sense out of this situation and their relations to other people in it? Are there any observable regularities in the emotional mechanisms that come to play in the interpersonal relations in groups of a particular racial and sexual composition? This research attempts in a preliminary way to answer these
Art · Criminology · Fantasy · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |