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RESEARCH ARTICLE FROM THE Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, vol. 49, 4: pp. 1315-1334.

Editor's Note:

The author, Donald Moss. M.D., a co-founder of Green Gang, a four-person collective working with climate change denial and the relation between human and the natural worlds, a faculty member of both the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and a former Chair, Program Committee, American Psychoanalytic Association, has either written an elaborate joke, or is engaged in crass virtue-signaling, or is as disturbed as the homeless guy who shouted slurs at you this morning on the subway.

After a cursory examination of some of his "scientific papers," I judge him to be deeply unwell. He appears to be a self-hating Caucasian (due to unresolved 'daddy issues'?) and has deviant tendencies.

On Having Whiteness

Donald Moss (donaldmoss@mindspring.com)
First Published May 27, 2021 | Research Article

Abstract

Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has—a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility. The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one’s body, in one’s mind, and in one’s world. Parasitic Whiteness renders its hosts’ appetites voracious, insatiable, and perverse. These deformed appetites particularly target nonwhite peoples. Once established, these appetites are nearly impossible to eliminate. Effective treatment consists of a combination of psychic and social-historical interventions. Such interventions can reasonably aim only to reshape Whiteness’s infiltrated appetites—to reduce their intensity, redistribute their aims, and occasionally turn those aims toward the work of reparation. When remembered and represented, the ravages wreaked by the chronic condition can function either as warning (“never again”) or as temptation (“great again”). Memorialization alone, therefore, is no guarantee against regression. There is not yet a permanent cure.
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See also: Challenges and Opportunities in Becoming One's Own Self: Commentary on Moss, by Dorothy Evans Holmes

Other papers by Donald Moss:

Book Review: RETHINKING PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE HOMOSEXUALITIES (ANNUAL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS, VOL. XXX). Edited by Jerome A. Winer, James William Anderson, Bertram J. Cohler, and R. Dennis Shelby

Free Speech, Love Speech, Hate Speech, and Neutrality: In and Out of the Consulting Room

I and You—One Sentence Per Patient Per Session in The Time of Covid

Masculinity as Masquerade

Me Here, You There—Now What? Commentary on Kite, Morris, Wilson, and Kattlove

On Hating in the First Person Plural: Thinking Psychoanalytically About Racism, Homophobia, and Misogyny

On Situating Homophobia

Pussy RIOT: Commentary on Hansbury

The Insane Look of the Bewildered Half-Broken Animal

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