Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation

Evidence

This work represents the sum of the experiences and observations of seven years; regardless of the area I have studied, one thing has struck me: The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation. Therefore I have been led to consider their alienation in terms of psychoanalytical classifications. The Negro’s behavior makes him akin to an obsessive neurotic type, or, if one prefers, he puts himself into a complete situational neurosis. In the man of color there is a constant effort to run away from his own individuality, to annihilate his own presence. Whenever a man of color protests, there is alienation. Whenever a man of color rebukes, there is alienation. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 214 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

If the “peculiar sensation” of an imposed “double-consciousness” is, as Du Bois held, the fate of those subject to a racialized identity, and is what Eduardo Glissant described the lot of those who endure a “schizoid self,” it was also something that middling colonizers like Valck shared, as well. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1467 (#expands, via linked claim)

The truth is that the study of an occupied people, militarily subject to an implacable domination, requires documentation and checking difficult to combine. It is not the soil that is occupied. It is not the ports or the airdromes. French colonialism has settled itself in the very center of the Algerian individual and has undertaken a sustained work of cleanup, of expulsion of self, of rationally pursued mutilation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Both colonizer and colonized behave as neurotics trapped by inferiority and superiority.; Neurotic structure combines environmental pressures with the individual’s own mode of reacting to them — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 299; Both colonizer and colonized behave neurotically toward each other. (+9 more)

Related

• Both colonizer and colonized behave neurotically toward each other. (similarity 0.95)
• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation (similarity 0.93)
• Both colonizer and colonized behave as neurotics trapped by inferiority and superiority. (similarity 0.92)
• Middling colonizers experienced double-consciousness similar to the colonized (similarity 0.88)
• The colonized Negro’s embrace of negritude style feels like theft to the white man. (similarity 0.87)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.84)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial selfhood is constituted through the violent gaze of the Other. (similarity 0.83)
• Fanon argues colonial subjects show psychotic-adjacent symptoms. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it. (similarity 0.81)
• Enslavement and killing man constitute the twin disasters of both races (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial histories are internal to the identity of the colonizer nation (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial relations dehumanize colonizer and colonized alike (similarity 0.81)
• Colonization is internalized into the most intimate private space (similarity 0.81)
• Alienation takes different forms for educated and laboring colonized men (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation #corroborates (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 214
• Middling colonizers experienced double-consciousness similar to the colonized #expands (0.60) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1467
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #expands (0.40) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347