Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture

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Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. Abbott, Robert, 35–36 “adversarial aesthetic,” 134–35 Alexander, Suzanne, 111–16, 128–29, 130–31 The Alexander Plays (Kennedy), 121. See also Dramatic Circle (Kennedy) “All the Things You Could Be by Now, If Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother: Psychoanalysis and Race” (Spillers), 4 amalgamation. See racial amalgamation ambivalence, 80–81 Anderson, Sherwood, 33 anticolonialism, 122–23. See also Fanon, Fritz “An Unconscious Determinant in Native Son” (Wertham), 92–93 artistic idealization, 55–59, 163n1 Association of Multi-Ethnic Americans (AMEA), 136–37 Bagnall, Robert, 9, 15, 34–36 Baldwin, James, 140 Baraka, Amiri, 111 Barnett, Claudia, 124–25, 171n5 Bergner, Gwen, 5, 7–8, 146 Berlant, Lauren, 5, 137–38 biracial subject, 41, 174n11. See also mutiracial subjectivity birth trauma theory, 43–49, 55–59, 163n1, 164–65n7 Black Arts Era, 111, 121, 131. See also 1960s black deviance, 103–9 black female subjectivity, 113, 114, 130–31 black interiority expression, 16. See also interiority theories black migration, 97–99, 100 blackness as constructed, 148 Black Power, 112, 120–21, 142–43, 144, 146–47 Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon), 82, 112, 114 black subjectivity, 86–91, 102–3, 142. See also interiority theories Blazer, Dan, 84 Bogues, Anthony, 115 “border identity,” 174n11 Boston Chronicle, 2 Boudreau, Brenda, 136 Brazil, 175n16 Brewer case, 92 Brown, James, 157 Brown v. Board of Education, 5–6 Bulletproof Diva (Jones), 138–39 Byrd, Richard, 64–65 Calvin, Floyd A.: disparagement of other publications and writers, 20; Freudian terminology misappropriation, 22–25; importance, 13; overview, 8–9, 15; on Pickens, 21–25; post-Messenger work, 163n5; promotion in the Messenger, 162–63n4–5; psychoanalysis uses in writ- 190 . index ing, 21; signification of psychoanalytic concepts, 22–25 Cane (Toomer), 61, 64–65 Capecia, Mayotte, 112, 113 Caucasia (Senna): Brazil, 144–46; intraracial politics of color, 144; language and race, 147–50; overviews, 11–12, 132–35, 158–59; passing as black, 143; psychic interiority of race, 146, 154; racial identity, 143–44, 151–53; self-determinism, 151–53, 154; sexuality, 175–76n18 Cheng, Annie Anlin, 5–6, 123 Chesnutt, Charles, 138 Christian, Barbara, 157 Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, 137 Cleaver, Eldridge, 111, 170–71n1 Clinton Brewer case, 92 Cogdell, Josephine, 18 Cohen, Cathy, 103–4 Coleman, Julia P., 34 colonialism, 113. See also Fanon, Fritz “Color and Camouflage: A Psychoanalysis” (Pickens), 9, 15, 25–28 cover girls, 163n6. See also the Messenger; racial amalgamation Craft, Christopher, 127 Crane, Helga, 40–41, 47–57, 163–64n2, 164n4 criminality, 89–90. See also sexuality; social psychiatry the Crisis (NAACP), 17 Daniel, G. Reginald, 137 Davis, Thadious, 40 The Deep North (Howe), 12 Dell, Floyd, 33–34 democracy, 96–97, 101 Diamond, Elin, 112, 125–26, 171n2 Diop, David, 130 Dodge, Mabel, 33 Domestic Allegories of Political Desire (Tate), 113–14 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 175n17 Douglas, Aaron, 70 Douglas, Ann, 33–34 Dracula (Stoker), 126–31 Dramatic Circle (Kennedy): Fanon, 111, 122; Freud, 3, 111; gender-desire relationship, 127–29, 130–31; identification, 121–26; as maternal and matrimonial narrative, 116; overview, 11; political desire, 114 Du Bois, W. E. B., 1, 19, 57, 157 Elam, Harold J., 94 Eldridge, Richard, 63–64 Elemeno, 148–50 Ellison, Ralph: on anxiety and ghetto psychology , 107; black deviance, 103–6; on black urban migration effects, 97–98; Hegel influence, 170n21; La Fargue Mental Hygiene Clinic, 3; overview, 10–11; psychological ideas and African American narrative, 3–5; re-articulation of blackness , 139–40; Senna on, 139; on socially produced neurosis in African Americans, 97–98; social psychiatry, 83, 84; trappings of racial identity, 152 The Emperor Jones (O’Neill), 68–69 English, Daylanne, 29 Enneagram, 72–74 environmental influence on racial identification , 79–80 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission , 137 eugenics, 14–15, 36–37 Eugenics: A Journal for Race Betterment, 36–37 Fabre, Michael, 86, 87, 89, 90, 92 “The Face of America and the State of Emergency” (Berlant), 137–38 Fanon, Fritz, 3, 11, 82–83, 167n2, 171n3 Fauset, Jesse, 64 The Feminine Mystique (Friedan), 119 feminism, 112, 119 Ferenczi, Sandor, 22 Ferguson, Roderick, 108 Film Club (Kennedy), 124 Fire!! (magazine), 17 Frazier, E. Franklin, 97–98, 101 Freedman, Jonathan, 87 Freud, Sigmund: birth trauma theory, 43, 44; black interiority, 157; criminality studies, 89–90; dreams, 122; identification , 122; impact on American thought, 3; racial amalgamation, 18–19; racial purity, 18–19; superego and sexual excessiveness, 105; women, 162n1 [3.135...