Racial enactments in dynamic treatment

The aim of this paper is to discuss racial enactments for what they might c ontribute to our understanding of the intersubjectivity of race and racial experience. "Racial enactments" designate interactive sequences embodying t he actualization in the clinical situation of cultural attitudes toward rac e and racial difference. I present examples of racial enactments in several social contexts, as well as in an extended clinical vignette. I consider r acial enactments in the light of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and sug gest that collaborative methods facilitate the effective analysis of racial material.