In a frequently repeated group phenomenon, a racial slur is spoken in psychoanalytic conferences, after which a range of defensive responses emerge to counter acknowledgment of the meanings of having done so. After a discussion of the literature relevant to the use of slurs in psychoanalytic professional settings, Freud’s concept of Nachträglichkeit, or deferred action, is used to identify and explore these events as a series of discriminatory gestures that evoke racial trauma. The defensive responses that emerge to protect the use of these gestures indicate ties to the traumatic legacy of slavery and to white supremacy as it appears in contemporary psychoanalytic culture. “Gestures of the open hand” are proposed, and their profound reparative potential is discussed. The intimate link between epistemic justice and psychoanalytic endeavors is delineated.

在一个经常重复的群体现象中，在精神分析会议上会出现种族诽谤，之后出现了一系列防御性反应，以反驳承认这样做的含义。在讨论了与在精神分析专业环境中使用诽谤相关的文献之后，弗洛伊德的Nachträglichkeit概念，或延期行动，被用来识别和探索这些事件，作为一系列引起种族创伤的歧视性姿态。为保护这些手势的使用而出现的防御性反应表明，这与奴隶制的创伤性遗产和当代精神分析文化中出现的白人至上有联系。提出了“张开手的手势”，并讨论了它们深刻的修复潜力。描述了认知正义和精神分析努力之间的密切联系。