Both colonizer and colonized behave neurotically toward each other.

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)

The new relations are not the result of one barbarism replacing another barbarism, of one crushing of man replacing another crushing of man. What we Algerians want is to discover the man behind the colonizer; this man who is both the organizer and the victim of a system that has choked him and reduced him to silence. As for us, we have long since rehabilitated the Algerian colonized man. We have wrenched the Algerian man from a centuries-old and implacable oppression. We have risen to our feet and we are now moving forward. Who can settle us back in servitude? — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 119 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Both colonizer and colonized behave as neurotics trapped by inferiority and superiority.; Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation; The colonizer is simultaneously the organizer and victim of the colonial system. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 119 (+2 more)

Related

• Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation (similarity 0.95)
• Both colonizer and colonized behave as neurotics trapped by inferiority and superiority. (similarity 0.93)
• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation (similarity 0.93)
• The colonized Negro’s embrace of negritude style feels like theft to the white man. (similarity 0.89)
• The colonizer is simultaneously the organizer and victim of the colonial system. (similarity 0.86)
• The colonizer is himself a victim of the colonial system he organizes (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial relations dehumanize colonizer and colonized alike (similarity 0.83)
• Enslavement and killing man constitute the twin disasters of both races (similarity 0.83)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.83)
• Educated colonials suffer an intellectual alienation unlike laborers’ material exploitation. (similarity 0.81)
• Alienation takes different forms for educated and laboring colonized men (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial selfhood is constituted through the violent gaze of the Other. (similarity 0.81)
• Middling colonizers experienced double-consciousness similar to the colonized (similarity 0.80)
• Fanon’s sociogenesis holds that the mental illness of the colonized subject is not caused by biological factors but by the subject’s alienation by the racial ideologies of colonial modernity. (similarity 0.80)
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• 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 (0.95) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 214
• The colonizer is simultaneously the organizer and victim of the colonial system. #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 119
• No common ground exists between colonized and colonizer in any colonial situation #qualifies (0.40)