Starting with the memory of a scene featuring Sidney Poitier and a baby in the Western Duel at Diablo (1966), the author reflects on the potential function of certain moving images for people who have been affected by parental narcissism in their early years. He considers this phenomenon auto-ethnographically and in its specifically racialized context, arguing that, if we are serious about deepening our psychosocial understanding of the workings of both “traumatic narcissism” and “parental negation,” then we need to engage emotionally, politically, and aesthetically, with the “psychose blanche” of spectrally internalized whiteness.