Colonial selfhood is constituted through the violent gaze of the Other.

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 subjects act out violently to end unbearable psychological tension — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 553; Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222; Colonial psychology shifts blame for colonial violence onto the colonized — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 161 (+17 more)

Related

• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.86)
• Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself (similarity 0.83)
• Colonization is internalized into the most intimate private space (similarity 0.83)
• Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial violence created a spiritual void more powerful than class conflict. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial utopias functioned as blueprints of distress, not conquest. (similarity 0.81)
• The colonizer is himself a victim of the colonial system he organizes (similarity 0.81)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body (similarity 0.81)
• A detailed colonial psychology study can still miss its real coordinates. (similarity 0.81)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial power relations were gendered and psychoanalytically structured (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself (similarity 0.81)
• The colonial subject’s very identity is constituted by the white man’s arrival (similarity 0.81)
• Both colonizer and colonized behave neurotically toward each other. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• The Antillean’s sense of self is entirely contingent on the Other’s judgment. #corroborates (0.87)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222
• Europeans project their repressed evil onto the racialized Other #corroborates (0.85)
• Antillean identity is contingent entirely on the white Other #corroborates (0.85)
• Sartre’s Other-concept fails for black consciousness because the white man is also master. #qualifies (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 965
• The colonial subject fears being discovered, dreading the world’s reaction to his true self #corroborates (0.82)
• Identity is constituted through splitting and an interiorized Other, not pure difference. #expands (0.82)
• Colonial hysteria manifested in murderous acts for settlers but suicide-like self-exposure for the colonized #exemplifies (0.80)
• Colonial power relations were gendered and psychoanalytically structured #expands (0.80)
• Ideology defines the self by stigmatising the Other #corroborates (0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 833
• “Splitting” renders the Rest the West’s mirror-image Other #expands (0.80)
• Antillean action seeks the Other’s corroboration rather than genuine communication #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 756
• Colonial psychology shifts blame for colonial violence onto the colonized #corroborates (0.78) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 161
• Dehumanizing film narratives grant viewers a perceived right to kill the Other. #expands (0.78)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life #complicates (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178