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Subjectivation“The process that creates the subject is called subjectivation. This term captures the paradox of its impact. While it enables individuals to acquire a coherent self-image that covers over the original state of decenteredness characteristic of early life, it also creates subjects who uncritically identify with the social order’s repressive and constraining asymmetrical power relations and the ideologies that rationalize them (Althusser, 1984; Guralnik & Simeon, 2010). Althusser famously referred to the process of subjectivation as one in which we are “interpellated” or hailed to our place in the social order. To the extent that we uncritically identify with its foundational values and institutional arrangements, we reproduce them in the realm of ideas and affectively in the concrete behaviors of everyday life” (638)Shame as an ally to hegemony“Shame, the quintessential emotion associated with the inability to embody the cultural ideal of autonomy and self-sufficiency, is the affective ally of hegemony. Failure is experienced as proof of personal inadequacy rather than social catastrophe. Shame often produces vengeful rage chaotically expressed. Those most deeply abjected within and by the class-based hierarchy of neoliberalism often have recourse to omnipotent states of mind as a means of defending themselves against fragility and instability” (642)Racial enactment“we are White and middle class, and we have formed an unrecognized and unthought alliance against L’s Latina immigrant working-class nanny. We two have evolved what Kimberlyn Leary (2000) termed a “racial enactment,” by which she means interactions that contain societal assumptions about race, especially among patient and therapist who are more similar than not.” (645)