Psychoanalytic accounts of racism displace rather than escape reductionism

Evidence

All these examples show, however, is that in making these correlations Freudianism has not so much overcome its reductionism as diversified its effects. So how does it come about that a theory which so radically “deconstructs” the myth of the unitary subject in the clinical setting should operate with such an integrationist model of self and society when it comes to generalize its findings? — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1297

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racialization recruits deep psychic structures of feeling, not only beliefs — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1241; Race is psychoanalysis’s constitutive but disavowed foundation — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1402; Psychoanalytic theories read racism as unconscious projection onto blacks, not as response to them. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1282 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Psychoanalytic accounts of racism reduce structural inequality to individual unconscious dynamics #expands (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1275
• Universal-psychology accounts of racism substitute an alibi for explanation #corroborates (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 634
• Psychoanalytic theories of racism have often been reductive and themselves racist #corroborates (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1297
• A lazy psychoanalytic racism theory starts from established clinical constructs #complicates (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1299
• Psychoanalytic readings of racism are hunches, not explanations, until tested #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1292
• Postcolonial psychoanalytic theory builds ideal types detached from empirical reality of racism #complicates (0.75)