Study of racism’s psychic roots neglected pre-Oedipal mechanisms until Theweleit.

Evidence

Almost all the work inspired by Adorno and by Freud’s 1922 paper on paranoia, focuses on the Oedipal structuration of racist desire. As a result the forms of pre-Oedipal identification and aggressivity which the work of Melanie Klein and her followers put on the psychoanalytic map, have, until very recently, been virtually ignored. The publication of Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies (1987) changed all that. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1370

Categorization

• XREF: The Oedipal-versus-Kleinian split over racism maps onto similar contested definitional ground in the vault over whether racism roots in culture, structure, or psyche. — connects to: Freudian racism theory neglected Kleinian pre-Oedipal dynamics until Theweleit; Deep South racism let whites project Oedipal fears onto blacks

Broader Connections

• Freudian racism theory neglected Kleinian pre-Oedipal dynamics until Theweleit #corroborates (0.92)
• Deep South racism let whites project Oedipal fears onto blacks #exemplifies (0.78)