A Possible but Elusive Mutuality: Psychoanalysis and Blackness

ABSTRACT Psychoanalysis writ large, has enriched Black lives, but not as a result of the activities of a mostly culturally indifferent institutional psychoanalysis. In its unceasing attempts to pursue a good‐enough life, within the obstacles of a racist structure, elements of the Black community have both adopted and offered psychoanalytic‐themed perspectives in such attempts. This offer the possibility of informing a re‐imagining of a staid, and increasingly irrelevant mainstream clinical psychoanalysis.