Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory

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

Categorization

• XREF: Directly bears on the reader’s goal: ‘dying in coloniality’ — the inner expropriation of self Fanon describes here is the clinical/psychic dimension of colonial death. — connects to: Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself; Inner psychological mutation, not independence, is what generates national sovereignty; Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (+32 more)
• DEFINE: Defines what ‘occupation’ truly means in coloniality — occupancy of the person rather than the land.

Related

• Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself (similarity 0.93)
• Colonization is internalized into the most intimate private space (similarity 0.92)
• Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it. (similarity 0.91)
• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself (similarity 0.90)
• Colonial utopias functioned as blueprints of distress, not conquest. (similarity 0.90)
• Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (similarity 0.89)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.88)
• A detailed colonial psychology study can still miss its real coordinates. (similarity 0.88)
• Mitchell defines colonization as a power that reshapes space and personhood. (similarity 0.87)
• Inner psychological mutation, not independence, is what generates national sovereignty (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial selfhood is constituted through the violent gaze of the Other. (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial occupation contests the entire country’s history and daily life (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial power relations were gendered and psychoanalytically structured (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Colonial trauma produces a feeling of nonexistence, not mere inferiority #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 547
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted #expands (0.60)
• Colonial subjects resist the amputation of their identity yet find agency impossible #complicates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 556