Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it.

Evidence

The reactions and the behavior patterns to which the arrival of the European in Madagascar gave rise were not tacked on to a pre-existing set. There was no addition to the earlier psychic whole. If, for instance, Martians undertook to colonize the earth men—not to initiate them into Martian culture but to colonize them—we should be doubtful of the persistence of any earth personality. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

After having sealed the Malagasy into his own customs, after having evolved a unilateral analysis of his view of the world, after having described the Malagasy within a closed circle, after having noted that the Malagasy has a dependency relation toward his ancestors–a strong tribal characteristic–M. Mannoni, in defiance of all objectivity, applies his conclusions to a bilateral totality–deliberately ignoring the fact that, since Galliéni, the Malagasy has ceased to exist. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 346 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222; Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347; Mitchell defines colonization as a power that reshapes space and personhood. (+5 more)

Related

• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.91)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.91)
• Colonial contact shattered Madagascar’s prior psychological mechanisms (similarity 0.90)
• A detailed colonial psychology study can still miss its real coordinates. (similarity 0.90)
• Mitchell defines colonization as a power that reshapes space and personhood. (similarity 0.89)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.89)
• Colonization is internalized into the most intimate private space (similarity 0.88)
• Colonization so transformed colonized peoples that pre-colonial personality descriptions no longer apply (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself (similarity 0.86)
• Colonized man undergoes inner transformation in rejecting oppression (similarity 0.85)
• Colonized cultures became conscripts of modernity, not fixed essences. (similarity 0.85)
• The white man’s arrival shattered the Malagasy’s psychological mechanisms along with colonial horizons. (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial utopias functioned as blueprints of distress, not conquest. (similarity 0.85)
• The revolution transformed customs, language, and master-slave relations (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #corroborates (0.95) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory #corroborates (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222
• Colonization so transformed colonized peoples that pre-colonial personality descriptions no longer apply #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 346
• Mitchell defines colonization as a power that reshapes space and personhood. #expands (0.70)
• Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself #expands (0.60)