Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself

Evidence

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: Colonial life was structurally split between settler existence and colonized agony; Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body; The returning colonial subject adopts a critical, know-it-all stance toward his compatriots. (+15 more)

Related

• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.90)
• Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself (similarity 0.89)
• Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (similarity 0.88)
• Colonization is internalized into the most intimate private space (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial utopias functioned as blueprints of distress, not conquest. (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial intellectuals felt dislocated from both family and their own people (similarity 0.84)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body (similarity 0.83)
• A detailed colonial psychology study can still miss its real coordinates. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial selfhood is constituted through the violent gaze of the Other. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it. (similarity 0.83)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.82)
• The colonized learned of the revolution’s gravity by reading the settler’s visible anxiety (similarity 0.82)
• The colonizer is himself a victim of the colonial system he organizes (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial power relations were gendered and psychoanalytically structured (similarity 0.81)
• French colonialism occupied the Algerian individual’s self, not merely the territory (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Family letters reveal colonial dispositions without clarifying inner feeling #exemplifies (0.60)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory #expands (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222
• Colonial officials displaced anxiety about empire onto bodily and comic self-descriptions #exemplifies (0.55)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178