Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society

Evidence

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 (#complicates, 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 (#expands, via linked claim)

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Inner transformation precedes and drives national sovereignty — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 618; Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347; Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178 (+9 more)

Related

• Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it. (similarity 0.89)
• Colonized man undergoes inner transformation in rejecting oppression (similarity 0.88)
• Decolonization must transform inner consciousness as much as social structures (similarity 0.88)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.88)
• Inner psychological mutation, not independence, is what generates national sovereignty (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.87)
• Colonization is internalized into the most intimate private space (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.87)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body (similarity 0.87)
• A detailed colonial psychology study can still miss its real coordinates. (similarity 0.86)
• Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial contact shattered Madagascar’s prior psychological mechanisms (similarity 0.85)
• Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation (similarity 0.84)
• Revolution strips away the mental handicaps produced by 130 years of colonial oppression (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial power relations were gendered and psychoanalytically structured (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life #complicates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #complicates (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222
• Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. #expands (0.50)
• Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation #corroborates (0.50)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. #corroborates (0.40)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body #exemplifies (0.40)