In these ethnic times, it is gratifying to see psychoanalysts writing about ways in which we may come to grips with group hatred. But it is equally disturbing to find that such a brilliant exposition as Farhad Dalal's Race, Color, and Racialization tilts in one direction, that of exploring external fields of reference to our inside lives. When he juxtaposes the work of psychoanalysts who write about group hatred and charges that they have it backwards when they start from the internal world and move to the external one, we are implicitly or explicitly invited to ask what happens in the negotiated public space between inside and outside.

This review essay is a prefatory attempt to invite a discussion about what happens in the negotiated third world between groups when groups hate each other. To ask analysts to adjudicate between practitioner-scholars