Colonization is internalized into the most intimate private space

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Initially subjective, the breaches made in colonialism are the result of a victory of the colonized over their old fear and over the atmosphere of despair distilled day after day by a colonialism that has incrusted itself with the prospect of enduring forever. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178; Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it.; Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself (+5 more)

Related

• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.92)
• Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (similarity 0.91)
• Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself (similarity 0.88)
• Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it. (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself (similarity 0.88)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial utopias functioned as blueprints of distress, not conquest. (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.86)
• Decolonization must transform inner consciousness as much as social structures (similarity 0.85)
• Inner psychological mutation, not independence, is what generates national sovereignty (similarity 0.85)
• The colonizer is himself a victim of the colonial system he organizes (similarity 0.84)
• A detailed colonial psychology study can still miss its real coordinates. (similarity 0.84)
• Mitchell defines colonization as a power that reshapes space and personhood. (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial power relations were gendered and psychoanalytically structured (similarity 0.84)
• Colonized man undergoes inner transformation in rejecting oppression (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory #corroborates (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178
• Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it. #expands (0.85)
• Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself #corroborates (0.85)
• Colonized writers internalize the colonizer’s aesthetic to erase their own identity #exemplifies (0.80) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 330
• Decolonization must transform inner consciousness as much as social structures #expands (0.80) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 352
• Colonized people gain status precisely by renouncing their own culture for the colonizer’s #exemplifies (0.75)
• Formerly colonized peoples risk adopting the dominating discourse against themselves #qualifies (0.72)