Black abnormality arises without any direct traumatic contact with whites.

Evidence

How is the persistence of this reaction in the twentieth century to be explained when in other ways there is complete identification with the white man? Very often the Negro who becomes abnormal has never had any relations with whites. Has some remote experience been repressed in his unconscious? Did the little black child see his father beaten or lynched by a white man? Has there been a real traumatism? To all of this we have to answer no. Well, then? — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 569

Categorization

• QUESTION: Fanon rules out the individual-trauma explanation, forcing his answer toward collective catharsis — this is the pivot of the chapter.
• XREF: connects to: Colonial pathology arises without any direct personal trauma from whites

Related

• Colonial pathology arises without any direct personal trauma from whites (similarity 0.93)
• A normal black child becomes abnormal upon mere contact with the white world. (similarity 0.84)
• The sixth chapter proposes that ‘a normal Negro child, having grown up in a normal Negro family, will become abnormal on the slightest contact of the white world.’ (similarity 0.83)
• Fanon’s original text reads ‘A normal Negro child, having grown up within a normal family, will become abnormal on the slightest contact with the white world,’ followed by his own hedge, ‘This… (similarity 0.82)
• Fanon reads Freud as holding that a normal child in a normal family becomes a normal adult, then argues this developmental model does not apply in the colonial context. (similarity 0.79)
• Fanon’s closeness to the alienated barred him from scientific objectivity (similarity 0.79)
• Only psychoanalytic interpretation lays bare the affect anomalies structuring the black complex (similarity 0.78)