Psychoanalysis and Other Disciplines Confront Prejudice

Fanny Blanck-Cereijido is an Argentine psychoanalyst who has practised and taught in Mexico City since 1976. She is a member of the Freudian Society of Mexico City, the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association. She is a founding member and faculty of the Freudian Society of Mexico City. Dr Blanck-Cereijido is the author of many books and has written extensively about prejudice, the Other and gender.

"The COVID-19 pandemic and the US Black Lives Matter movement have surfaced deep enduring structural discrimination and its dire consequences. Psychoanalysis and Other Disciplines Confront Prejudice: Discrimination Against the Other provides a timely exploration of the feelings and thinking that lead to hatred between humans. It thoughtfully exposes how discrimination provides a sense of belonging. Consequently, discrimination becomes even more prevalent and brutal when identity is threatened.Fanny Blanck-Cereijido has done a masterful job drawing together outstanding authors from diverse fields to contribute to this multidisciplinary and complex study which includes psychoanalytic, cultural, social, philosophical, and medical perspectives. The book offers a broad vision to the reader with which to confront the multiple dimensions of prejudice. Prejudice is transmitted from generation to generation and this book attempts to challenge that transmission by helping readers understand the unconscious processes which drive it. In a time of pandemic, war, forced migrations and exile, it is a magnificent contribution toward a world of peace and tolerance."Adriana Prengler, Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association "Prejudice is inherent to the subject and to groups. It’s based on a rejection of the new, the foreign, the alien, and the not known. Prejudice relates to systems of belief, of faith, and it is the support for racist and discriminatory thoughts. This book problematizes the topic of prejudice and analyzes in depth the different meanings it has for clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis, biology, and conductism. It is conceived as a complex system."Janine Puget, psychoanalyst of the de la Asociación Psicoanalítica de Buenos Aires (2014)

• Introduction  1. Thought and reality in prejudice, superstition and collective delusion  2. Prejudice and racism  3. Prejudice as a Basis for Discrimination  4. The obviousness of prejudice, an unavoidable transcultural problem  5. Prejudice, its Effects on the Psychoanalytic Clinic  6. The Logic of Prejudice  7. Biological Roots of Prejudice