Psychoanalysis repressed racism and colonialism to assimilate into host societies

Evidence

From the 1940s onwards the professional culture of psychoanalysis took on an increasingly dual character. The diasporic communities of analysts made a concerted attempt to assimilate to the scientific conventions of the host society, to give their discipline a distinctively local, or rather national, character, reflecting its most cherished values. The other, more negative sides to the English or American dream (including of course racism and colonialism) were therefore ignored. These “other scenes” became part of the repressed in the collective memory of psychoanalysis. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1255

Categorization

• XREF: Chimes with the vault’s claims about psychodynamic silence around race found in Along the Archival Grain, where colonial secrecy was enforced by official denial. — connects to: Race is psychoanalysis’s constitutive but disavowed foundation — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1402; Race was central to early psychoanalysis but vanished from it after the Vienna dispersal — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1254
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1255