Racial Rage, Racial Guilt with David Eng, Ph.D. & Shinhee Han, Ph.D.

Racial Rage, Racial Guilt: The Uses of Anger in Asian America with David Eng, Ph.D. and Shinhee Han, Ph.D.

Asian Americans are conventionally described as "middle-man minorities," outside of dominant racial paradigms of white and black, adjunct to white privilege and exempt from the brunt of systemic violence directed against black people. Historical accounts of the in-betweenness of Asian Americans trace their origins to how Asian coolie labor has served to triangulate white capital and African slavery over the course of European modernity. If this is the material history of in-betweenness, what is the psychic corollary of the middle-man thesis? Through an analysis of the Netflix dark comedy series Beef, as well as case histories of our Asian American patients and students, we argue that the psychic effects of occupying a racially intermediate position implicate an unexplored terrain of racial rage and racial guilt that Asian Americans are insistently socialized to hold on behalf of others.

In this workshop, we will consider how social and psychic processes of loss for Asian Americans are mediated, mitigated, and exacerbated by the problem of guilt. Scholars working on identity politics have embraced a range of affective states - including melancholy, pride, shame, and anger - as theoretically and politically productive emotions. In contrast, guilt is more typically attributed to others than assumed by the self. Indeed, discerning the guilt of others is often a means of proclaiming the righteousness of one’s self. If guilt is the sine qua non for initiating psychic processes of repair in object relations, how does the repudiation of guilt foreclose the possibility of reparation? More specifically, how do Asian Americans hold, embrace and repress guilt such that reparation of both the other and the self become impossible?

The presenters will consult on clinical case material from ICP third year candidate, Dr. Carrie Atikune.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of the program, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the relationship between psychoanalysis and race.
2. Explain the different social and psychic mechanisms connected to the processes of Asian American racialization.
3. Describe the ways in which losses connected to immigration, assimilation, and racialization processes are mediated, mitigated, and exacerbated through guilt for Asian Americans.

Zoom Event - 3 CE's 

Attendees must attend the program in its entirety to receive CE's.

This event will NOT be recorded.

Pricing:

Early registration through May 18th/ Late registration from May 19th

Licensed Professional Non- ICP: $125/$140

ICP Member: $115/$130

Candidate: $85/$100

Pre-licensed: $35/$45

Above ICP prices do not include non-refundable servicing/processing/bocking fees.
The ICP Refund Policy can be honored on the above ICP pricing only.
Additional servicing/processing/booking fees are non-refundable at the time of purchase.

Registration ends on May 31st at 10pm PDT