Racism subtypes each stem from distinct psychopathologies in psychoanalytic theory

Evidence

There have been some attempts to complicate the picture by building intervening variables into the analysis, but these do not apply the notion of overdetermination to the task. Kovel, for instance, distinguishes between dominative racism (based on oedipal desire and the equation black = phallus — paternal signifier), and aversive racism which is anal sadistic in orientation, and centered on fantasies about dirt and bodily functions repudiated in the search for some purified notion of a “higher” culture or civilization. Young-Bruehl (1996) similarly distinguishes between different types of racism in terms of their characteristic psychopathologies. Antisemitism is an obsessional prejudice displayed by people with overrigid superegos, whilst negrophobia exemplifies hysterical prejudice in which a group is chosen to act out forbidden sexually aggressive drives that the racist has repressed. This is contrasted with ethnocentrism and xenophobia which are based on a narcissistic refusal to value difference for its own sake. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1295

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out Kovel’s dominative/aversive and Young-Bruehl’s antisemitism/negrophobia/ethnocentrism typologies - useful as a taxonomy reference.
• XREF: connects to: Psychoanalytic accounts of racism displace rather than escape reductionism — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1297; Psychoanalytic theories of racism have often been reductive and themselves racist — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1297; Postcolonial psychoanalytic theory builds ideal types detached from empirical reality of racism (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Psychoanalytic theories of racism have often been reductive and themselves racist #qualifies (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1297
• Psychoanalytic accounts of racism displace rather than escape reductionism #qualifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1297
• 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
• A lazy psychoanalytic racism theory starts from established clinical constructs #qualifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1299
• Postcolonial psychoanalytic theory builds ideal types detached from empirical reality of racism #qualifies (0.70)
• Psychoanalytic frameworks can reframe racist violence and hatred #responds-to (0.70)
• Racism develops from elemental antipathy through theorized levels #expands (0.70) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 185