A Psychoanalytic Skeptic Says Aruna Khilanani’s Anti-White Rhetoric Isn’t MUCH Worse Than You Get From The American Psychoanalytic Association
06/06/2021
Re: James Fulford’s blog post Aruna Khilanani, Child Of Privileged Immigrants, Hates The White People She Was Raised With
From: A Psychoanalytic Skeptic
This kind of rhetoric is not unique to one lone psychoanalyst.
You get a lot of the same thing from The American Psychoanalytic Association. The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association just published an entire issue [April 2021] with plenty of similar language.
An abstract from Donald Moss' paper "On Having Whiteness":
Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has — a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility. The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one’s body, in one’s mind, and in one’s world. Parasitic Whiteness renders its hosts’ appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse. These deformed appetites particularly target nonwhite peoples. Once established, these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate. Effective treatment consists of a combination of psychic and social-historical interventions. Such interventions can reasonably aim only to reshape Whiteness’s infiltrated appetites — to reduce their intensity, redistribute their aims, and occasionally turn those aims toward the work of reparation. When remembered and represented, the ravages wreaked by the chronic condition can function either as warning (“never again”) or as temptation (“great again”). Memorialization alone, therefore, is no guarantee against regression. There is not yet a permanent cure.
By James Fulford writes: I’m fascinated. Here’s a sample of this issue’s TOC.
- Psychoanalysis, Race, and Racism: Introduction to JAPA 69/2
- “I Do Not Have a Racist Bone in My Body”: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on What is Lost and Not Mourned in Our Culture’s Persistent Racism
- Black Rage: The Psychic Adaptation to the Trauma of Oppression
- Murderous Racism as Normal Psychosis: The Case of Dylann Roof
- Observations on Use of the N-Word in Psychoanalytic Conferences
- The Historian’s Self-Reflection and American Racism
- On Having Whiteness (by Donald Moss, mentioned above, who has whiteness, and Challenges and Opportunities in Becoming One’s Own Self: Commentary on Moss by Dorothy Evans Holmes, who doesn’t.
- The Evolution of Racism in the Western World: Addressing Fear of the Other
Finally:
- Two Opinions on the mind of Donald J. Trump: Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President by Justin A. Frank Psychologically Sound: The Mind of Donald J. Trump by Sheldon Roth
Yet another, or another two, violations of the over 50-year old Goldwater Rule that says ethical psychiatrists are not allowed to diagnose a President they’ve never treated or even met.
We always knew that psychoanalysts were not that tightly wrapped, but this all-in hatred of whites is new.