Discussion of Green’s “Melanie Klein and the Black Mammy: An Exploration of the Influence of the Mammy Stereotype on Klein’s Maternal and Its Contribution to the ‘Whiteness’ of Psychoanalysis”

Andrew Asibong, Ph.D., is Reader in Film and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, co-founder of the research center Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community, and a practicing member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists, registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council. He is the author of François Ozon (Manchester University Press, 2008, reprinted 2016) and Marie NDiaye: Blankness and Recognition (Liverpool University Press, 2013), and is currently writing a book on the relationship between film-watching and psychodynamic change, Something to Watch Over Me: Aliveness, Affliction and the Moving Image, scheduled for publication with Karnac Books in 2019.
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