ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the need for a Black feminist psychoanalytic theory. It frames this argument in the context of the life afrand work of Black psychoanalytic foremother, Margaret Morgan -Lawrence, the first Black woman to train as a psychoanalyst and includes, as well, a discussion of my own drawing and xtraining in the field of psychoanalysis. It uses Lawrence's life and contributions as a lens for developing an intersectional approach to psychoanalysis that takes up Crenshaw's original call to “map” the critical elements of oppressed women's social, economic, and political experiences.
