ABSTRACT
Written a decade after the publication of the first edition of Uprooted Minds, Hollander’s epilogue extends the book’s themes to an analysis of subjectivity and large group dynamics in relation to the multiple crises we face in contemporary U.S. society. Conceptualized through her social psychoanalytic lens, she argues for the importance of a decolonial approach to explicating the nature of the social and psychological patterns that characterize our dangerously polarized society in which collective anxieties are increasingly expressed through othering that engenders the political mobilization of millions on the basis of racism, xenophobia, and misogyny. Hollander interrogates the social structures, ideologies and psychologies of white supremacy to show their role in threatening to violently destabilize this country and move it toward an authoritarian model of neoliberal capitalism. In this context, the decolonization of psychoanalysis is explored to show how the progressive activism of psychoanalysts depicted in Uprooted Minds that was on the margins of the profession in this country has, since the social traumas constituted by the election of Donald Trump, the emergence of a virulent right wing movement and the devastating Covid-19 pandemic, moved increasingly to the center of psychoanalytic theory and praxis.
