Race, Racism, and Psychoanalysis
Thursdays: 3:15- 4:50
January 28; February 4, 11, 18, 25; March 3, 24, 31
415 Central Park West, Suite 1EL (@101st)
[The office of Marsha Levy-Warren]
Faculty: Marsha Levy-Warren and Michael Moskowitz
mlevywarren@aol.com
moskowitz.michael@gmail.com
Week One
January 28: Hatred
Baldwin, J. (1993) “My Dungeon Shook” in The Fire Next Time. New York: Vintage
International, pp. 3-11.
Malveaux, J. (2002) “Race, Rage, and the Ace of Spades” in When Race Becomes Real.
Chicago: Lawrence Books, pp. 101-110.
White, K.P. (2002). Surviving Hating and Being Hated. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, vol.
38, 3: 401-422.
Week Two
February 4: A Developmental Perspective
Levy-Warren, M.H. (1996/2004) “Mature Ethno-cultural Identity: Leaving Home,
Belonging, and Finding a Place” in The Adolescent Journey. Northvale, N.J.: Jason
Aronson/Rowman & Littlefield, pp.131-149.
Owen-Kostelnik, J., Reppucci, N.D., and Meyer, J. (2006) Testimony and Interrogation of
Minors: Assumptions About Maturity and Morality. American Psychologist, vol.
61,4:286-304.
Week Three
February 11: Race in America Today
Coates, T. (2015) Chapter 1, Between the World and Me. New York: Spiegel and Grau,
pp. 1-71.
Week Four
February 18: Toward Developing a Theory of Racism
Eng, D., Han, S. (2000) A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, vol.
10 (4): 667-7000.
Williams, P. (1998) “The Ethnic Scarring of American Whiteness” in The House that Race
Built. New York: Random House, pp. 253-263.
Week Five
February 25: Internalized Hatred/Racism
Freud, S. (1916) Some Character Types Met with in Psychoanalytic Work in The Standard
Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. XIV: 310-333.
Holmes, D.E. (2006) The Wrecking Effects of Race and Social Class on Self and Success.
Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 75 (1): 215-235.
Week Six
March 3: Whiteness
Altman, N. (2006) Whiteness. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 75 (1): 45-72.
Suchet, M. (2007) Unraveling Whiteness. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 17(6): 876-886 with
discussions by Harris and Hill, and response by Suchet.
Weeks Seven and Eight
March 24 and 31: Race in the Clinical Exchange
(clinical presentations)
Apprey, M. (2006) Difference and the Awakening of Wounds in Intercultural
Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 13 (6): 73-94.
Levy-Warren, M.H. (2014) A Knot in the Gut: Transference/Countertransference and
Issues of Race,Ethnicity, and Class in Adolescent Treatment. Journal of Infant, Child, and
Adolescent Psychotherapy, 13:133-141.