Colonial domination is justified by inventing a dependency complex in the colonized

Evidence

Follow him step by step through the ins and outs of his little conjuring tricks, and he will prove to you as clear as day that colonization is based on psychology, that there are in this world groups of men who, for unknown reasons, suffer from what must be called a dependency complex, that these groups are psychologically made for dependence; that they need dependence, that they crave it, ask for it, demand it; that this is the case with most of the colonized peoples and with the Madagascans in particular. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 149

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Mannoni’s ‘dependency complex’ as a key colonial-psychology concept that the reader’s later Islamophobia readings will critique.
• QUESTION: Worth tracking how this ‘dependency complex’ claim gets recycled in later colonial-apology discourse when Césaire names Mannoni’s move.
• XREF: connects to: Colonial domination doctrine reduces humanity to fixed racial essences; Enlightenment environmentalism furnished a rationale for colonial hierarchy — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 232; Colonial racial superiority must be actively believed to be maintained — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 102 (+9 more)

Related

• Colonial rule caused the Malagasy dependency complex rather than pre-existing it. (similarity 0.86)
• Colonialism systematically dispossesses the colonized of resources under a justifying discourse of hierarchy (similarity 0.83)
• Mannoni reduces the Malagasy to a choice between inferiority and dependence. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial rule systematically instills an inferiority complex in the colonized (similarity 0.82)
• Mannoni claimed colonized peoples unconsciously desired their own colonization (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial domination doctrine reduces humanity to fixed racial essences (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial rulers reject native self-determination as beyond subject capacity (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial psychology framed colonized peoples as incapable of desiring freedom (similarity 0.80)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial relations dehumanize colonizer and colonized alike (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial status means an external ruling class, not mere dependence (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial racial superiority must be actively believed to be maintained (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial rule systematically instills an inferiority complex in the colonized #corroborates (0.85) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 59
• Colonial officials rationalized domination by claiming trusteeship over the colonized #corroborates (0.82)
• Colonial dominion was justified as the natural right of those capable of ruling #corroborates (0.80)