The Multicultural Imagination : "Race", Color, and the Unconscious

This text takes a look at the contributions of depth psychology to a question which affects every individual who tries to establish an effective personal identity in the context of their received "racial" identity.

The author argues that "race" is just as important as sex or any other content of the unconcscious, drawing on clinical case material from contemporary patients for whom "race" or color is a vitally significant social and political concern that impacts on them personally.

There is no assumption that racism or "colourism" will simply vanish if we psychoanalyse them, but the text shows how a non-defensive ego and a self-image that is receptive to other-images can move us towards a more productive discourse of cultural differences.