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Psychoanalysis' Jewish Origin And Repression
- Freud and psychoanalysis faced anti-Semitic labeling as the 'Jewish science,' which pushed Freud to distance his theory.
- That historical repression helps explain psychoanalysis' later reticence to engage race explicitly.
Racecraft As Social Magic
- Racecraft works like witchcraft to justify and locate racial categories through social practices and science.
- Tools like ancestry tests function to distance people from their African origin and sustain racial imaginaries.
Racism As The Lacanian Real
- The Fields' 'racism' maps to Lacan's real: racism is the structural generator that produces symbolic race.
- Treating race as merely symbolic misses the real social practices that create and sustain it.