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I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I know, which is much worse, and this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it.
The power of domination and exclusion is central to the belief in being white, and without it, “white people” would cease to exist for want of reasons.
One of the most important and challenging tasks of the psychoanalyst is to see through the obfuscating fog of reality as a defense, in order to sense
psychic reality in all of its music, its aroma, its textures, its hues. Yet, the field of psychoanalysis is infamous for its tendency to deny features of what we might call concrete reality, a consensually agreed upon and reasonably objective reality. This has been true from the start of psychoanalysis: the projection of castration anxiety and penis envy onto normal female development in place of the large-scale disenfranchisement of females in a structurally misogynistic culture (e.g., Freud 1925), the framing of homosexuality as a failure to manage the Oedipus complex (e.g., Furman 1988), the inclination to dismiss the impact of neurodiversities and to overpsychologize their manifestations (Krass 2020), the disregard or minimization of the boundary violations of some of the field's cornerstone visionaries (Krass 2019). One can conclude from this that a river of perversity runs through our field. The disavowal of the reality in front of our faces has been and continues to be an ever present feature, clung to in the attempt to maintain an idealized version of psychoanalysis and of ourselves as psychoanalysts.
Hating, Abhorring and Wishing to Destroy pulls the reader in many directions yet, for the most part, a c