BONDS, GROUPS AND NETWORKS IN FAVOR OF LIFE OR IN THE RACIST AGREEMENT FOR THE PRODUCTION OF DEATH

Abstract

This article is based on the writings of René Kaës and Pierre Benghozi, authors of the psychoanalytic theory of the bond. It aims to think about racism in two aspects: to consider subjective, inter and transubjective operations related to how sometimes black people defend themselves psychosocially from the effects of racism and to approach the theme of whiteness, of the intersubjective networks created for white privilege and for the embarrassment, humiliation or destruction of the black person. Racism is approached as meta-frame resulting from unconscious or conscious aliances and, as such, it is only structural because it is part of people's subjective-identity formation and vice-versa. The article seeks to consider what puts the subject and the structure in continuity or conflict. In this direction, the struggle against racism is structural and identitary, it is for democracy and the right to have a psychic life free from the traumatic effects of domination.