Whiteness

This paper seeks to make meaning of the experience of being white in the United States at this Point in history. The self-awareness of white people is limited by a blind spot around the meaning and impact of being white in a multiracial society. Using Psychoanalytic and literary methodology, the author seeks to cast light with which to explore this blind spot. Everyday experiences are used to illustrate the widely Pervasive impact of race in the lives of white people, and a clinical vignette illustrates how race might show up in a white-on-white psychotherapy. Enactments within this paper are noted when they are evident to the author.