Blackness can be a screen onto which neurosis projects its causes

Evidence

Jean Veneuse is a neurotic, and his color is only an attempt to explain his psychic structure. If this objective difference had not existed, he would have manufactured it out of nothing. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 292 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racially-inflected neurosis may stem from childhood abandonment rather than race itself; The neurosis precedes and motivates the racial obsession, not the reverse — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 292; Antillean neurosis is social rather than individual in origin (+2 more)

Related

• Racially-inflected neurosis may stem from childhood abandonment rather than race itself (similarity 0.93)
• The neurosis precedes and motivates the racial obsession, not the reverse (similarity 0.92)
• Veneuse’s blackness is a rationalization, not the cause, of his neurosis. (similarity 0.89)
• Antillean neuroses stem from a white cultural situation imposed through media (similarity 0.83)
• The patient’s psychoneurosis rested on a fear of imaginary Negroes formed at age twelve (similarity 0.83)
• Antillean neurosis is the product of a white-world-forming cultural situation, not of individual pathology (similarity 0.83)
• The Antillean’s late-realized self-recognition as Negro triggers Negrophobia and neurosis (similarity 0.82)
• Every Antillean neurosis is the product of his cultural situation (similarity 0.82)
• The myth of the Negro can itself become a decisive cause of psychological alienation. (similarity 0.82)
• The patient’s alienation stems from fear of the Negro aggravated by circumstance (similarity 0.81)
• Antillean morality requires erasing blackness from consciousness (similarity 0.80)
• An individual neurotic’s behavior cannot be generalized into a law of black psychology (similarity 0.80)
• Negrophobia operates on the biological and instinctual level. (similarity 0.79)
• The Antillean’s Negrophobia springs from an internalized white moral code (similarity 0.79)
• Only psychoanalytic interpretation lays bare the affect anomalies structuring the black complex (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The neurosis precedes and motivates the racial obsession, not the reverse #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 292
• Antillean neurosis is social rather than individual in origin #corroborates (0.60)
• The myth of the Negro can drive genuine psychiatric alienation #expands (0.60)
• Antillean neurosis is the product of a white-world-forming cultural situation, not of individual pathology #corroborates (0.60)