Psychoanalytic racism theory should target institutional practice, not treat racist individuals

Evidence

So what finally is the payoff for adding a psychoanalytic perspective to the understanding of unconscious racism? First of all let us be clear that it has nothing to do with providing psychotherapy for racists! It might have something, or indeed a lot, to do with making the psychoanalytic profession more aware of ethnocentric assumptions in its own clinical theory and practice, and in persuading it to tackle the forms of institutional racism operating in its procedures for recruiting both analysts and analysands. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1407

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Psychoanalysis deflects institutional-racism critiques by pathologizing those who raise them — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1258; 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; Racism based on power structures is not aggregate interpersonal antipathy

Broader Connections

• Racism based on power structures is not aggregate interpersonal antipathy #corroborates (0.85)