A Discussion of “Mask Up”: Identifying Anger in Gendered and Racial Formations: Illuminating the Therapeutic Aspects of Gendered Whiteness in the Analyst’s Dream

Abstract

ABSTRACT Paige Sweet’s brilliant paper explores the psychodynamics of gendered racialized enactments and communications within the therapeutic processes of two clinical cases. The discussion of the analyst’s dream material along with the classical writings of rivière and fanon on mascaraed and the mask. The author opens a new terrain in psychoanalytic discourse around the power differential between the known knowns of the analyst and the patient’s experience of the analyst in their work. Culture, class, and the economies of social location become vibrant aspects of the work.