Antillean inferiority is social, not individual, because all Antilleans share it

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

Categorization

• DEFINE: Central method shift: individual psychology fails, so the diagnosis moves from soul to environment.
• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s need for a psychoanalysis of colonial subjects — the taint lives in the environment, which is the two conflicting education narratives. — connects to: Inferiority in Antilleans is collective and environmental, not individual; Antillean comparison is governed by a social rather than a personal fiction.; Antillean neurosis is social rather than individual in origin (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 341
• The collective unconscious is socially acquired, not inherited genetically. #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 664
• The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668
• Society is a concrete generality neither reducible to individuals nor abstract #corroborates (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 274
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77