Centuries of oppression produce physiological violence in the colonized

Evidence

Because we want a democratic and a renovated Algeria, because we believe one cannot rise and liberate oneself in one area and sink in another, we condemn, with pain in our hearts, those brothers who have flung themselves into revolutionary action with the almost physiological brutality that centuries of oppression give rise to and feed. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 71

Categorization

• DEFINE: ‘Almost physiological brutality’ — Fanon’s formulation that oppression is somatic, not merely psychological; core to his medicalizing of colonial violence.
• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s focus on medicine: the colonized body itself internalizes colonial oppression. — connects to: Colonial hysteria manifested in murderous acts for settlers but suicide-like self-exposure for the colonized; Colonial violence created a spiritual void more powerful than class conflict.; Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347 (+9 more)

Related

• Revolution strips away the mental handicaps produced by 130 years of colonial oppression (similarity 0.85)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial violence created a spiritual void more powerful than class conflict. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonized civilians relied on defiant inner conviction against traumatizing French press (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial hysteria manifested in murderous acts for settlers but suicide-like self-exposure for the colonized (similarity 0.80)
• The colonizer is himself a victim of the colonial system he organizes (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial attacks on a cultural practice determine where resistance crystallizes (similarity 0.80)
• Affirming the colonized self via rupture cannot resolve psychological damage (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial violence itself, not just revolutionary solidarity, reshaped Algerian feminine society (similarity 0.80)
• Regrouped Algerians deteriorated physiologically to the point that medication stopped working. (similarity 0.79)
• Resisting oppression transforms the colonized person so completely that colonialism becomes unsustainable (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.79)
• Even extreme colonial repression does not justify every retaliatory act. (similarity 0.79)
• The colonial situation forces colonized people to reject even beneficial medicine categorically. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Oppression does not confer virtue but breeds potential violence in victims #corroborates (0.90) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 737
• Colonial subjects act out violently to end unbearable psychological tension #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 553
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347