A Review of The Unconscious: Contemporary Refractions in Psychoanalysis, edited by Pascal Sauvayre and David Braucher

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Notes

¹ See Jung, C. (2012). The red book: A reader’s edition. Norton.

² While space limitations preclude a more in-depth discussion of Moss’s thesis, in brief, according to Moss, whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have particular susceptibility. It renders its hosts’ appetites voracious, insatiable and perverse, and these deformed appetites particularly target nonwhite peoples. The ways in which Moss’s ideas is considered under Layton’s wider umbrella of “normative unconscious processes” seems interpenetrating and worthy of further exploration.

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Robert Benedetti

Robert Benedetti, PhD, is a psychologist/psychoanalyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. He received his certificate in contemporary psychoanalysis from the National Training Program in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (NTP)—National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) in New York, New York. He has served as Co-Director of Curriculum and is a Training Committee member and Consulting Faculty member of the NTP. He is a Faculty Member and Supervisor in the Psychoanalytic Training program at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ICP+P) in Washington, D.C. He has served as a member of the Webinar committee for The International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP). He has served as Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical Center and Director of Forensics and Clinical Operations, Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C. He has given papers nationally and internationally and has publications in psychoanalytic and forensic psychology journals.