Citation

Keval N. Br. J. Psychother. 2001; 18(1): 34-51.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1752-0118.2001.tb00005.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Racial violence arises when infantile anxiety and hatred of ‘difference’ or ‘otherness’ become too unmanageable within the self and are displaced into the racial arena via splitting and projective mechanisms. The body of the ‘other’, particularly skin colour differences, becomes a salient target for locating and attacking these feared and unwanted aspects of the self.