Making Sense of Walt: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Racism |
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| Authors: | Brian Rasmussen |
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| Affiliation: | School of Social Work, University of British Columbia , Okanagan , British Columbia , Canada |
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| Abstract: | This paper explores Klein's concepts of the depressive position, paranoid position, envy, projective identification and reparation, and their application to understanding overt racism. An extensive case example from the movie Gran Torino and its protagonist Walt Kowalski are the foci of this theoretical speculation. Implications for antiracist practice are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | racism Klein antiracism positions envy reparation |
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