August 2020
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Contemporary Psychoanalysis
This article explores our experience in psychoanalytic training as a three-person cohort (Black, Latina, and White Jewish) in which racialized dynamics were dissociated in the service of completing our training. Acknowledging the tension of both maintaining a sense of our individual identities and connection to the “other,” we examine the disavowal of racial identifications that allowed us to hold each other in the absence of a holding environment by way of our Institute. In addition, we explore the unspoken entanglements of privilege and oppression enacted over the course of analytic training.