Antillean inferiority is governed by a social fiction rather than a personal one

Evidence

In effect, Adler has created a psychology of the individual. We have just seen that the feeling of inferiority is an Antillean characteristic. It is not just this or that Antillean who embodies the neurotic formation, but all Antilleans. Antillean society is a neurotic society, a society of “comparison.” Hence we are driven from the individual back to the social structure. If there is a taint, it lies not in the “soul” of the individual but rather in that of the environment. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 758 (#expands, via linked claim)

This process, quite apart from all bonds based on shared substantive interests, will often lead to actual relations between the elements of any two—or of many—groups that have been made alike in this way. One observes this, for example, in the international sympathy that aristocrats hold for one another. To an astonishing degree, these feelings of solidarity are independent of the specific character of the individuals concerned, a matter that is otherwise decisive in determining personal attraction and repulsion. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 595 (#expands, via linked claim)

1. My patient is suffering from an inferiority complex. His psychic structure is in danger of disintegration. What has to be done is to save him from this and, little by little, to rid him of this unconscious desire. … 2. If he is overwhelmed to such a degree by the wish to be white, it is because he lives in a society that makes his inferiority complex possible, in a society that derives its stability from the perpetuation of this complex, in a society that proclaims the superiority of one race; to the identical degree to which that society creates difficulties for him, he will find himself thrust into a neurotic situation. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 360 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Inferiority in Antilleans is collective and environmental, not individual; The black man’s inferiority complex follows a double social and economic process.; Antillean comparison is governed by a social rather than a personal fiction. (+12 more)

Related

• Antillean inferiority is social, not individual, because all Antilleans share it (similarity 0.94)
• Antillean neurosis is social rather than individual in origin (similarity 0.92)
• Inferiority in Antilleans is collective and environmental, not individual (similarity 0.91)
• Antillean comparison is governed by a social rather than a personal fiction. (similarity 0.89)
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. (similarity 0.85)
• Society’s racist structure creates and perpetuates the colonized patient’s inferiority complex. (similarity 0.85)
• Mannoni claims the colonized’s inferiority complex predates colonization. (similarity 0.85)
• The black man’s inferiority complex follows a double social and economic process. (similarity 0.83)
• Antillean self-worth depends entirely on comparison with others (similarity 0.83)
• Mannoni treats colonial inferiority complexes as pre-existing rather than produced by colonization (similarity 0.83)
• Language hierarchy alone does not create inferiority; colonization does (similarity 0.83)
• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate (similarity 0.83)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.82)
• Inferiority complexes intensify most among the most educated colonized people (similarity 0.81)
• The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Antillean inferiority is social, not individual, because all Antilleans share it #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 758
• Formal similarity of social position creates solidarity regardless of personal character #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 595
• Society’s racist structure creates and perpetuates the colonized patient’s inferiority complex. #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 360
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #qualifies (0.45) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated #complicates (0.40) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 97