This article demonstrates the author’s psychoanalytic method of pursuing racism’s various forms, functions, and locations, including within himself, a person of color. It argues that to disrupt racism on any level, we must realize the unconscious motivations every individual has to actively engage in racist ideology. This is due to racism’s malevolent efficiency to articulate and structure experiences, such as threat and enjoyment, for both the individual and the group. The paper uses clinical vignettes to show the value of theorizing interdisciplinarily to accurately portray the complexity, contradictions, and intractability of racism’s manifestations. It claims that addressing the questions racism poses requires first articulating the particularity of one’s active psychic attachment to what racist process provides.

这篇文章展示了作者追求种族主义的各种形式、功能和位置的精神分析方法，包括在他自己的内部，一个有色人种。它认为，要在任何层面上破坏种族主义，我们必须认识到每个人都必须积极参与种族主义意识形态的无意识动机。这是由于种族主义对个人和群体的表达和结构体验（例如威胁和享受）的恶意效率。本文使用临床小插曲来展示跨学科理论化的价值，以准确描绘种族主义表现的复杂性、矛盾性和难以处理性。它声称，解决种族主义提出的问题需要首先阐明一个人对种族主义过程所提供的积极心理依恋的特殊性。