A detailed colonial psychology study can still miss its real coordinates.

Evidence

The reactions and the behavior patterns to which the arrival of the European in Madagascar gave rise were not tacked on to a pre-existing set. There was no addition to the earlier psychic whole. If, for instance, Martians undertook to colonize the earth men—not to initiate them into Martian culture but to colonize them—we should be doubtful of the persistence of any earth personality. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347 (#complicates, via linked claim)

The truth is that the study of an occupied people, militarily subject to an implacable domination, requires documentation and checking difficult to combine. It is not the soil that is occupied. It is not the ports or the airdromes. French colonialism has settled itself in the very center of the Algerian individual and has undertaken a sustained work of cleanup, of expulsion of self, of rationally pursued mutilation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial historiography fails to capture the psyches of imperial agents; Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347; Dutch colonial historiography has downplayed the political force of affect (+3 more)

Related

• Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it. (similarity 0.90)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial contact shattered Madagascar’s prior psychological mechanisms (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.87)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial utopias functioned as blueprints of distress, not conquest. (similarity 0.85)
• Colonization is internalized into the most intimate private space (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial violence created a spiritual void more powerful than class conflict. (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial power relations were gendered and psychoanalytically structured (similarity 0.83)
• Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (similarity 0.82)
• The white man’s arrival shattered the Malagasy’s psychological mechanisms along with colonial horizons. (similarity 0.82)
• Revolution strips away the mental handicaps produced by 130 years of colonial oppression (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial dreams must be read through historical violence, not individual Freudian analysis (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Colonial historiography fails to capture the psyches of imperial agents #complicates (0.70)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #complicates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Dutch colonial historiography has downplayed the political force of affect #complicates (0.50)
• Colonial trauma produces a feeling of nonexistence, not mere inferiority #complicates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 547
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory #complicates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222
• Colonial comparisons to Dutch poverty discounted tropical hardship until eye-witness reports contradicted them #corroborates (0.45)