A change of environment cannot cure a neurosis the subject himself deploys as self-confirmation

Evidence

By refusing to multiply our elements, we take the risk of not setting a limit to our field; for it is essential to convey to the black man that an attitude of rupture has never saved anyone. While it is true that I have to throw off an attacker who is strangling me, because I literally cannot breathe, the fact remains solely on the physiological foundation. To the mechanical problem of respiration it would be unsound to graft a psychological element, the impossibility of expansion. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 106 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Self-certainty requires recognition from the other; Neurotic structure combines environmental pressures with the individual’s own mode of reacting to them — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 299; Environment alone does not cause neurosis; personal reaction to it does. (+6 more)

Related

• Affirming the colonized self via rupture cannot resolve psychological damage (similarity 0.88)
• Neurotic structure combines environmental pressures with the individual’s own mode of reacting to them (similarity 0.81)
• The neurotic conflict between self-denial and self-assertion is resolved only through universal human connection (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Environment alone does not cause neurosis; personal reaction to it does. #corroborates (0.85)
• Neurotic structure erupts from environment and the individual’s personal reactions combined. #corroborates (0.80)
• Affirming the colonized self via rupture cannot resolve psychological damage #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 106
• The neurotic conflict between self-denial and self-assertion is resolved only through universal human connection #complicates (0.55)
• Colonial neurosis does not stem from a repressed personal trauma #corroborates (0.55)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body #qualifies (0.50)