Colonized subjects’ dream imagery is literal social fact, not Oedipal symbol.

Evidence

When I try to understand this dream, to analyze it, knowing that my friend has had problems in his career, I conclude that this dream fulfills an unconscious wish. But when, outside my psychoanalytic office, I have to incorporate my conclusions into the context of the world, I will assert: — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 359 (#expands, via linked claim)

The collective unconscious is not dependent on cerebral heredity; it is the result of what I shall call the unreflected imposition of a culture. Hence there is no reason to be surprised when an Antillean exposed to waking-dream therapy relives the same fantasies as a European. It is because the Antillean partakes of the same collective unconscious as the European. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668 (#expands, via linked claim)

Continuing to take stock of reality, endeavoring to ascertain the instant of symbolic crystallization, I very naturally found myself on the threshold of Jungian psychology. European civilization is characterized by the presence, at the heart of what Jung calls the collective unconscious, of an archetype: an expression of the bad instincts, of the darkness inherent in every ego, of the uncivilized savage, the Negro who slumbers in every white man. And Jung claims to have found in uncivilized peoples the same psychic structure that his diagram portrays. Personally, I think that Jung has deceived himself. Moreover, all the peoples that he has known–whether the Pueblo Indians of Arizona or the Negroes of Kenya in British East Africa–have had more or less traumatic contacts with the white man. I said earlier that in his Salavinizations52 the young Antillean is never black; and I have tried to show what this phenomenon corresponds to. Jung locates the collective unconscious in the inherited cerebral matter. But the collective unconscious, without our having to fall back on the genes, is purely and simply the sum of prejudices, myths, collective attitudes of a given group. It is taken for granted, to illustrate, that the Jews who have settled in Israel will produce in less than a hundred years a collective unconscious different from the ones that they had had before 1945 in the countries which they were forced to leave. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 664 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dreams of colonized people must be read through historical context, not individual psychoanalysis.; A dream’s meaning shifts when read against broader colonial social context. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 359; The collective unconscious is socially acquired, not inherited genetically. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 664 (+3 more)

Related

• Dreams of colonized people must be read through historical context, not individual psychoanalysis. (similarity 0.85)
• The collective unconscious is socially acquired, not inherited genetically. (similarity 0.83)
• The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited (similarity 0.83)
• A dream’s meaning shifts when read against broader colonial social context. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonized subjects’ dreams encode a warning to stay in their assigned place. (similarity 0.79)
• Human brains develop differently across cultural contexts, unlike chemical laws. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• A dream’s meaning shifts when read against broader colonial social context. #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 359
• The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited #expands (0.65) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668
• The collective unconscious is socially acquired, not inherited genetically. #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 664
• Aboriginal Dreaming treats creation as an ongoing present act, not a past event. #epitomizes (0.55) — , A Year of World Stories, 15488