Antillean neurosis is social rather than individual in origin

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial neurosis does not stem from a repressed personal trauma; The Antillean’s late-realized self-recognition as Negro triggers Negrophobia and neurosis; Inferiority in Antilleans is collective and environmental, not individual (+14 more)

Related

• Antillean inferiority is social, not individual, because all Antilleans share it (similarity 0.95)
• Inferiority in Antilleans is collective and environmental, not individual (similarity 0.94)
• Antillean inferiority is governed by a social fiction rather than a personal one (similarity 0.92)
• Antillean neurosis is the product of a white-world-forming cultural situation, not of individual pathology (similarity 0.90)
• Every Antillean neurosis is the product of his cultural situation (similarity 0.86)
• Antillean neuroses stem from a white cultural situation imposed through media (similarity 0.85)
• Antillean comparison is governed by a social rather than a personal fiction. (similarity 0.85)
• The Antillean’s unconscious is populated entirely by white archetypes (similarity 0.82)
• The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited (similarity 0.81)
• Antillean morality requires erasing blackness from consciousness (similarity 0.81)
• Antilleans claim superiority over Africans by being closer to the white man. (similarity 0.81)
• Antillean self-worth depends entirely on comparison with others (similarity 0.80)
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white (similarity 0.80)
• The Antillean’s Negrophobia springs from an internalized white moral code (similarity 0.80)
• Classical psychoanalysis explains adult neurosis through the family constellation as its only frame. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Antillean inferiority is social, not individual, because all Antilleans share it #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 758
• Antillean inferiority is governed by a social fiction rather than a personal one #corroborates (0.80)