Both colonizer and colonized behave as neurotics trapped by inferiority and superiority.

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)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Both colonizer and colonized behave neurotically toward each other.; Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation; Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77 (+4 more)

Related

• Both colonizer and colonized behave neurotically toward each other. (similarity 0.93)
• Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation (similarity 0.92)
• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation (similarity 0.91)
• The colonized Negro’s embrace of negritude style feels like theft to the white man. (similarity 0.90)
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. (similarity 0.88)
• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate (similarity 0.87)
• The colonized person’s inferiority is created by the European’s superiority, not pre-existing. (similarity 0.85)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.83)
• Mannoni claims the colonized’s inferiority complex predates colonization. (similarity 0.83)
• Inferiority complexes intensify most among the most educated colonized people (similarity 0.83)
• Society’s racist structure creates and perpetuates the colonized patient’s inferiority complex. (similarity 0.83)
• Enslavement and killing man constitute the twin disasters of both races (similarity 0.82)
• The educated colonized suffers an inferiority complex precisely upon assimilation and rejection. (similarity 0.82)
• Adopting the colonizer’s language signals an intensified inferiority complex among the educated (similarity 0.82)
• The colonized is forced to wear the stereotype the colonizer has sewn for him (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Both colonizer and colonized behave neurotically toward each other. #corroborates (0.95)
• Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation #corroborates (0.95)
• 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
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. #expands (0.50)
• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 341
• The colonized person’s inferiority is created by the European’s superiority, not pre-existing. #expands (0.50)