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July 3, 2018Studies in Gender and Sexuality

Melanie Klein and the Black Mammy: An Exploration of the Influence of the Mammy Stereotype on Klein’s Maternal and Its Contribution to the “Whiteness” of Psychoanalysis

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This article seeks to show the influence of the black mammy stereotype on Melanie Klein’s theorization of the maternal object. It takes as its starting point the underrepresentation of black analys...

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Emily Green (2018) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0087ca6be84a7ac8857d0c https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2018.1491454

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