Thinking About the Unthought Multiracial Subject: A Response to Adam Rodríguez's "Disallowing Multiplicity: Internalized Hierarchies, Dissociation, and Unformulated Bits of Self in a Poor, Mixed-Race Kid"
In responding to Adam Rodríguez's paper in this issue, I offer three autobiographical vignettes to depict aspects of my subjective experience of living as a multiracial person. Using his discussion of the multiracial subject as a point of departure, I consider how Asibong, Eng and Han, Stephens...
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| Published in: | Psychoanalytic dialogues Vol. 34; no. 6; pp. 735 - 740 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hillsdale
Routledge
01.11.2024
Taylor & Francis Inc |
| ISSN: | 1048-1885, 1940-9222 |
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| Summary: | In responding to Adam Rodríguez's paper in this issue, I offer three autobiographical vignettes to depict aspects of my subjective experience of living as a multiracial person. Using his discussion of the multiracial subject as a point of departure, I consider how Asibong, Eng and Han, Stephens, and Mura conceptualize the racialized subject as socialized into carrying the harmful effects of racism for a White hegemonic system that is invested in erasing and forgetting its painful and violent history. I join Rodríguez in thinking about how a psychoanalytic treatment that combines an analysis of the racialized transference and countertransference, along with an exploration of the deleterious effects of the day-to-day racism experienced by the multiracial subject, opens possibilities to metabolize anger and guilt and mitigate the dissociation of aspects of the multiracial self. |
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| ISSN: | 1048-1885 1940-9222 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10481885.2024.2416639 |