Racialized Bodies and the Violence of the Setting. Issue 3 (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Butler, Daniel G.
• Is Part Of: Studies in gender and sexuality. Volume 20:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 146
• Page End: 158
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: Sex (Psychology) -- Periodicals; Sexology -- Periodicals; Gender identity -- Periodicals; 155.305
• DOI: 10.1080/15240657.2019.1641935
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1524-0657

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Turning to object relations psychoanalysis and Black critical theory, I argue that the violence of racialization works in and through clinical and national settings. The setting is theorized in terms of its phantasmatic and phantomatic dimensions: The former refers to phantasies that ensnare certain bodies in a mythologized past, while the latter refers to the irreducibly material histories that those phantasies fail to ensnare (i.e., the phantom world). The case of a Confederate statue's proposed removal is used to illustrate the tension between phantasm/phantom at a national level, while Searles's writings demonstrate the interplay of phantasm/phantom in a clinical context.