Racism, Activity, and Passivity in the Analytic Dyad
A Fanonian Meditation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8333177 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elliott Schwebach (0000-0001-6170-8086, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 619-639 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00030651231199237 |
| PMID | 37822173 |
| OpenAlex | W4387563393 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
Frantz Fanon’s reception within psychoanalysis has been hindered by an interpretive “snag” that vexes discussions of his work and relevance. This “snag” misleadingly situates Fanon’s clinical approach as necessarily outside, or antithetical to, treatment as conceived and practiced in the Freudian tradition. As a result, analytic educators, students, and therapists are prone to position Fanon on one side of a conceptual boundary and “analytic neutrality” on the other. This reading is not only misguided but detrimental to the healing potential and continued development of psychoanalysis. A closer look at one of Fanon’s oft-repeated rallying cries, in which its context is examined and its intent unpacked, allows for a disambiguating of “analytic neutrality” and affords a number of takeaways that can help readers recognize the stakes of Fanon’s contributions to psychoanalysis and appreciate their pertinence for dyadic clinical treatment. A major implication is the importance for psychoanalysis, in both pedagogy and clinical practice, to take coloniality (the continued legacies of colonial domination, including especially white supremacy) far more seriously
Context (archaeology) · Dyad · Epistemology · Freudian slip · Meditation · Neutrality · Psychoanalysis · Racism · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Gender Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology
Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Oppression
Binded by the White
The Reality Principle
When Reparation Is Impossible
Racial Difference, Rupture, and Repair
Fanon’s Vision of Embodied Racism for Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
Do black lives matter in psychoanalysis? Frantz Fanon as our most disputatious ancestor
Psychoanalysis and black lives
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
White Supremacy and Counseling Psychology
Black Rage
Neutrality in the Analysis of Action-Prone Adolescents
Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America
Does your institute have an anti-racism commitment? Interrogating anti-racism commitments in psychoanalytic institutes
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |