Black consciousness precedes the ego and resists external framing as a lack
Evidence
In terms of consciousness, the black consciousness is held out as an absolute density, as filled with itself, a stage preceding any invasion, any abolition of the ego by desire. Jean-Paul Sartre, in this work, has destroyed black zeal. In opposition to historical becoming, there had always been the unforeseeable. I needed to lose myself completely in negritude. One day, perhaps, in the depths of that unhappy romanticism… . — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 512
Categorization
- DEFINE: Fanon’s definition of black consciousness as immanent fullness is central to his psychoanalytic framing.
- XREF: connects to: Self-consciousness depends on being recognized by another consciousness; Black alienation requires sociogenic analysis beyond individual psychoanalysis; Ego-withdrawal as a defense is impossible for the black man (+5 more)
Related
- Black consciousness is immanent and whole, not a potential lacking universality (similarity 0.93)
- Ego-withdrawal as a defense is impossible for the black man (similarity 0.88)
- Black alienation requires sociogenic analysis beyond individual psychoanalysis (similarity 0.83)
- Consciousness must lose itself in the absolute to attain self-consciousness (similarity 0.83)
- Sartre’s relativizing destroyed black Americans’ zeal collectively (similarity 0.82)
- The black man can become locked into his body as mere object (similarity 0.81)
- Sartre relativized negritude at a moment when Black consciousness needed absoluteness (similarity 0.81)
- Black alienation requires sociogeny beyond Freud’s ontogenetic and phylogenetic levels (similarity 0.80)
- Objecthood under the white gaze shatters the black man’s self into alienated fragments (similarity 0.80)
- Whiteness and blackness are each lived as mythic, opposing existential essences (similarity 0.79)
- Achieving morality requires the Negro to erase his own image from consciousness (similarity 0.79)
- The black man’s only perceived escape from insignificance leads into the white world. (similarity 0.78)