Foreword; Preface to the new edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The figure of the primitive: a brief genealogy; 2. Psychoanalysis and the colonial imagination: evolutionary thought in Freud’s texts; 3. Race and gender, primitivity and femininity: psychologies of enthrallment; 4. Historicizing consciousness: time, history, and religion; 5. Race and primitivity in the clinical encounter; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
Celia Brickman, Ph.D., is scholar-in-residence at the Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago, where she practices psychotherapy and previously was the Director of Education and a faculty member. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago, has been a visiting lecturer at the Chicago Institute of Social Work and a senior fellow at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School, and has given talks throughout the United States. In addition to this book, the first edition of which was nominated for a Gradiva Award, she is the author of several articles and book chapters on psychoanalysis, race and religion.
"Celia Brickman’s masterpiece, Race In Psychoanalysis, is one of
only a handful of books that I would describe as having profoundly
changed the way I think about Freud and the development of
psychoanalysis...Brickman’s book will remain a classic and
generations of analysts will need to study it to understand and
reconceptualize the most fundamental assumptions and tenets of
psychoanalysis..."-from the foreword by Lewis Aron, Ph.D.,
Director, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy
& Psychoanalysis."Brickman’s remarkably innovative work turns the
lens of post-colonial theory on the unconscious racial assumptions
of psychoanalysis, offering a new and radical take on the central
tension in Freud’s thoughts between valorizing and undermining the
idea of the "civilized" world. Erudite, lucid and compelling, Race
in Psychoanalysis is a timely argument for transforming
psychoanalysis into a genuinely critical theory of the repudiation
of the Other. It should be read by all students of psychoanalysis
as well as everyone interested in the history of psychoanalysis and
its contribution to modern thought."-Jessica Benjamin, author of
Beyond Doer and Done To: Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and
the Third.""In Race in Psychoanalysis: Aboriginal Populations in
the Mind, Celia Brickman illuminates the manner in which our
colonialist and enslaving past continues to reverberate within the
construction of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Taking a
thoughtful and detailed tour through the history of Freud’s
relationship with the sociopolitical forces within Europe during
his time, Brickman chronicles the various iterations of the use of
the darkened masses as timeless and primitive. Illuminating the way
race and racialized object relations permeate our canonical texts,
her perspective is a wonderful new resource to locate pathways to a
multicultural, racial, and ethnically diverse discourse within
theory construction and training in psychoanalysis."The pitfalls
and paradoxes concerning race that are embedded within the field"
become points of access for those perceived as other, not-white,
and different from whiteness to become psychoanalysts. Brickman
points to the lived psychodynamics of racialization as the way to
further Freud’s wish that his project be for the people."-Annie Lee
Jones, Ph.D., clinical psychologist/psychoanalyst, member of Black
Psychoanalysts Speak.
"Celia Brickman’s masterpiece, Race In Psychoanalysis, is one of
only a handful of books that I would describe as having profoundly
changed the way I think about Freud and the development of
psychoanalysis...Brickman’s book will remain a classic and
generations of analysts will need to study it to understand and
reconceptualize the most fundamental assumptions and tenets of
psychoanalysis..."Lewis Aron, Director, New York University
Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis."Brickman’s
remarkably innovative work turns the lens of post-colonial theory
on the unconscious racial assumptions of psychoanalysis, offering a
new and radical take on the central tension in Freud’s thoughts
between valorizing and undermining the idea of the "civilized"
world. Erudite, lucid and compelling, Race in Psychoanalysis is a
timely argument for transforming psychoanalysis into a genuinely
critical theory of the repudiation of the Other. It should be read
by all students of psychoanalysis as well as everyone interested in
the history of psychoanalysis and its contribution to modern
thought."Jessica Benjamin, author of Beyond Doer and Done To:
Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third.""In Race in
Psychoanalysis: Aboriginal Populations in the Mind, Celia Brickman
illuminates the manner in which our colonialist and enslaving past
continues to reverberate within the construction of psychoanalytic
theory and practice. Taking a thoughtful and detailed tour through
the history of Freud’s relationship with the sociopolitical forces
within Europe during his time, Brickman chronicles the various
iterations of the use of the darkened masses as timeless and
primitive. Illuminating the way race and racialized object
relations permeate our canonical texts, her perspective is a
wonderful new resource to locate pathways to a multicultural,
racial, and ethnically diverse discourse within theory construction
and training in psychoanalysis."The pitfalls and paradoxes
concerning race that are embedded within the field" become points
of access for those perceived as other, not-white, and different
from whiteness to become psychoanalysts. Brickman points to the
lived psychodynamics of racialization as the way to further Freud’s
wish that his project be for the people."Annie Lee Jones, clinical
psychologist/psychoanalyst, member of Black Psychoanalysts
Speak."Equipped with a mastery of post-colonial theory, critical
race theory, feminist critique and theories from religious studies,
as well as a sophisticated understanding of psychoanalytic theory,
Ms Brickman offers us a radical perspective on Freud's
meta-psychological, cultural and clinical thought. Ms Brickman
offers cogent summaries of Freud's writings and extrapolates
numerous examples from a vast body of clinical and cultural texts
demonstrating a deep familiarity with his oeuvre."Romy A. Reading
is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in individual
psychological treatment for adults and adolescents. To read this
review in full, please see the following: Reading, R. A. (2021)
Race in psychoanalysis: aboriginal populations in the mind: by
Celia Brickman, New York, Routledge, 2018, 234 pp., £25.89, ISBN:
9781138749399. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 102:642-645
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