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Anti‐Muslim prejudice and the psychic use of the ethnic other

Anti‐Muslim prejudice and the psychic use of the ethnic other NANCY CARO HOLLANDER I write this essay in early January 2009, in the midst of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, with its catastrophic impact on the Palestinian civilian population. My analysis of anti-Muslim prejudice in the United States has implications for understanding US Middle East policy, which one can hope will be positively affected by a new Obama administration, whose first Black president will be more sensitive to representing the rights and needs of all the ethnicities and religions that compose this country’s history and culture. I want to approach the analysis of anti-Muslim prejudice in the US from two different perspectives: first, I want to show how the patterns of US anti-Muslim prejudice can be understood as one variant of the general history of White racist cultural tradition in the United States. Second, I will analyze some unique properties of anti-Muslim prejudice and anti-Arab racism that emerge from the prominence of Christianity in US cultural history and from the exigencies of this country’s foreign policy. I employ the construct of “the psychic use of the ethnic other” as a psychoanalytic method of understanding some important features of anti-Muslim prejudice in this country. My analysis of the psycho-dynamics http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Wiley

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Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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1742-3341
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10.1002/aps.193
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NANCY CARO HOLLANDER I write this essay in early January 2009, in the midst of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, with its catastrophic impact on the Palestinian civilian population. My analysis of anti-Muslim prejudice in the United States has implications for understanding US Middle East policy, which one can hope will be positively affected by a new Obama administration, whose first Black president will be more sensitive to representing the rights and needs of all the ethnicities and religions that compose this country’s history and culture. I want to approach the analysis of anti-Muslim prejudice in the US from two different perspectives: first, I want to show how the patterns of US anti-Muslim prejudice can be understood as one variant of the general history of White racist cultural tradition in the United States. Second, I will analyze some unique properties of anti-Muslim prejudice and anti-Arab racism that emerge from the prominence of Christianity in US cultural history and from the exigencies of this country’s foreign policy. I employ the construct of “the psychic use of the ethnic other” as a psychoanalytic method of understanding some important features of anti-Muslim prejudice in this country. My analysis of the psycho-dynamics

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies – Wiley

Published: Mar 1, 2010

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