Article ; Online: The Dreamwork of the Symptom: Reading Structural Racism and Family History in a Drug Addiction.
Culture, medicine and psychiatry
2023 Volume 47, Issue 4, Page(s) 961–981
Abstract: A key tenet of critical health research is that individual symptoms must be considered in light of the social and political contexts that shape or, in some cases, produce them. Precisely how oppressive social forces give rise to individual symptoms, ... ...
Abstract | A key tenet of critical health research is that individual symptoms must be considered in light of the social and political contexts that shape or, in some cases, produce them. Precisely how oppressive social forces give rise to individual symptoms, however, remains challenging to theorize. This article contributes to debates over the interpretation of symptoms through a close reading of the case of Leon, an African American man struggling with an addiction to crack cocaine. Leon presented a complex illness narrative in which his addiction was clearly a product of structural racism, but also the result of dynamics within his family. Drawing on critical reevaluations of Freud's concept of the dreamwork, I call attention to the surface elements of Leon's narrative-what I term the surface of the symptom-and to the formal mechanisms by which latent contents (such as the social, the political, and the personal) are transformed into the manifest form of his symptom. This formal mode of reading offers a productive way of approaching questions of demystification and interpretation, one that holds in tension the register of social causation with the singularities of individuals and their symptoms. |
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MeSH term(s) | Male ; Humans ; Systemic Racism ; Reading ; Psychoanalysis ; Narration ; Substance-Related Disorders |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2023-04-06 |
Publishing country | Netherlands |
Document type | Journal Article |
ZDB-ID | 752957-0 |
ISSN | 1573-076X ; 0165-005X |
ISSN (online) | 1573-076X |
ISSN | 0165-005X |
DOI | 10.1007/s11013-023-09820-w |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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