A lazy psychoanalytic racism theory starts from established clinical constructs

Evidence

If you want to go about constructing a psychoanalytic theory of racism the lazy way, you take a number of short steps. First you concentrate on what are widely assumed to be the clinical strengths - the analysis of transference and resistance; the operation of the major defense mechanisms (projection, introjection, splitting, denial, foreclosure); the theory of narcissism, and borderline personality; the psychodynamics of envy, guilt, and anxiety. These are the bedrocks of clinical judgment and treatment concerning individual psychopathology. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1299

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: The ‘lazy way’ framing — a step-by-step recipe for building a bogus theory — is a usable satirical narrative device.
• XREF: connects to: Racism subtypes each stem from distinct psychopathologies in psychoanalytic theory — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1295; Psychoanalytic accounts of racism displace rather than escape reductionism — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1297; Psychoanalysis infers causality from mere association to yield absurd racism theories. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1301