Whiteness and Fog: Thinking About Traumatic Narcissism in a Racialized Context

Q3 Social Sciences

Studies in Gender and Sexuality Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/15240657.2022.2037317

Andrew Asibong

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Abstract

ABSTRACT 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.

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白与雾：种族化语境下的创伤自恋思考

摘要从西德尼·波蒂埃和婴儿在《暗黑破坏神》（1966）中的一幕记忆开始，作者反思了某些运动图像对早年受父母自恋影响的人的潜在作用。他认为，这种现象是自民族主义的，而且是在其特定的种族化背景下发生的，他认为，如果我们真的要加深我们对“创伤性自恋”和“父母否定”的心理社会理解，那么我们就需要在情感、政治和美学上参与白人内在化的“心理漂白”。

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Studies in Gender and Sexuality Social Sciences-Gender Studies

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期刊介绍： Beginning in the final two decades of the 20th century, the study of gender and sexuality has been revived from a variety of directions: the traditions of feminist scholarship, postclassical and postmodern psychoanalytic theory, developmental research, and cultural studies have all contributed to renewed fascination with those powerfully formative aspects of subjectivity that fall within the rubric of "gender" and "sexuality." Clinicians, for their part, have returned to gender and sexuality with heightened sensitivity to the role of these constructs in the treatment situation, including the richly variegated ways in which assumptions about gender and sexuality enter into our understandings of "normality" and "pathology."