Racialization recruits deep psychic structures of feeling, not only beliefs

Evidence

From a psychoanalytic standpoint, “unconscious racism” is therefore first and foremost a description of what happens to certain elementary structures of feeling and fantasy when they become racialized. Or to put it another way round, we are looking at how processes of racialization (which may be variously political, cultural and/or economic, institutional or informal, depending on context and conjuncture) engage with and affect the “other scenes” of self-identification. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1241

Categorization

• DEFINE: Reframes ‘racialization’ as a process operating on unconscious fantasy structures, not merely on ideas or categories — useful nuance against the vault’s more sociological usages of the term.
• XREF: Qualifies how racialization is treated elsewhere in the vault (Omi & Winant’s macro-level account lacks this psychic dimension). — connects to: Unconscious racism names how primordial feeling-structures become racialized; Racial imagery in psychic life is overdetermined and resists single-cause explanation — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1289; Racism offers covert psychic pleasures beyond its rational justifications (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Unconscious racism names how primordial feeling-structures become racialized #corroborates (0.92)
• Racial affect circulates as intensified emotions mediating exclusion and disciplinary power #expands (0.80)
• Racial imagery in psychic life is overdetermined and resists single-cause explanation #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1289
• Racism offers covert psychic pleasures beyond its rational justifications #expands (0.75)
• Psychoanalytic accounts of racism reduce structural inequality to individual unconscious dynamics #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1275
• Psychoanalytic accounts of racism displace rather than escape reductionism #qualifies (0.74) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1297
• The uncanny in racism arises from the Other within the self #complicates (0.73) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1397
• Racism develops from elemental antipathy through theorized levels #qualifies (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 185