Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation

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

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the core concept of the neurotic orientation underlying both black and white alienation — the analytical frame the reader needs.
• XREF: Establishes the psychoanalytic framing (Adler, Hegel, Freud) that recurs throughout the book’s analysis of colonial subjectivity. — connects to: Both colonizer and colonized behave as neurotics trapped by inferiority and superiority.; Both colonizer and colonized behave neurotically toward each other.; Enslavement and killing man constitute the twin disasters of both races (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• The white man’s arrival shattered the Malagasy’s psychological mechanisms along with colonial horizons. #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 353
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Educated colonial subjects suffer intellectual alienation unlike exploited laborers’ alienation #complicates (0.50)
• Colonized people become psychologically whiter as they adopt the mother country’s culture #expands (0.50)