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On Hating in the First Person Plural: Thinking Psychoanalytically About Racism, Homophobia, and Misogyny

Donald Moss

Faculty, NYU Psychonalytic Institute, Donaldmoss{at}mindspring.com, SUNY Downstate Medical Center

On the basis of personal, cultural, and clinical references, misogyny, homophobia, and racism are conceptualized as structured forms of hatred grounded in a defensive use of the first person plural voice. This use of hatred defends against dangers associated with desires linked to the first person singular. In these hatreds, "I want" is defensively transformed into "we hate." Disidentification from and hatred of the object appear where identification and yearning had been. Along with this defensive move into plurality, with these forms of hatred comes the use of what is conceptualized as the "hermeneutics of transparency." Here the hated qualities of the objects in question are sensed to be transparently obvious, a matter not of thought but of perception. The underlying premises of these hatreds are then contrasted with the underlying premises of psychoanalysis. Effective psychoanalytic work with these hatreds entails resisting the moral pressure to disidentify from them, while bearing the often profound discomfort linked with identifying with them.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 49, No. 4, 1315-1334 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/00030651010490041801
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