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This article responds to Dhwani Shah’s affectively and racially attuned article, “When Racialized Ghosts Refuse to Become Ancestors: Tasting Loewald’s ‘Blood of Recognition’ in Racial Melancholia and Mixed-Race Identities.” The discussion urges readers and psychoanalytic practitioners to consider an inversion of the haunted/haunting matrix, discussing the ideology of apparitions and the phenomenon of forced spectralization. The analysis shows how the process of forced spectralization emanates from a “coloniality of power” that structures all of our psychic and social lives. In doing so, it hopes to disrupt the over-investment in white temporalities of being in psychoanalytic spaces, practice, and technique. Drawing on Frantz Fanon’s disalienation, the article works toward liberatory potential in the clinic alongside, and as a necessary extension of and to, the street.