ABSTRACT
Intersectional analysis has been a hallmark of the theorizing of feminist women of color from Sojourner Truth to the Combahee River Collective to the work of historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and critical legal race scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw. As an analysis not only of simultaneously interlocking local and global oppressions but also of the way these oppressions are subjectively and relationally lived in specific historical contexts, intersectional analysis can be fruitfully articulated with and expanded on by analyzing conscious and unconscious relational experiences in the clinic. This chapter provides several examples of the importance of viewing clinical material through an intersectional lens. The author articulates an intersectional analysis with her concept of normative unconscious process, which focuses on the ways that clinicians and patients, as well as psychoanalytic institutions, unconsciously reproduce simultaneously interlocking local and global oppressions.
