Early solitude and cloistering create hypersensitivity and self-rejection

Evidence

Oh, those tears of a child who had no one to wipe them… . He will never forget that he was apprenticed so young to loneliness… . A cloistered existence, a withdrawn, secluded existence in which I learned too soon to meditate and to reflect. A solitary life that in the end was profoundly moved by trifles–it has made me hypersensitive within myself, incapable of externalizing my joys or my sorrows, so that I reject everything that I love and I turn my back in spite of myself on everything that attracts me. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 276

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body; Total abandonment and isolation can register as pleasure rather than dread — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 506; Solitary instincts conflict with the gregarious self-interest required for society — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2471 (+6 more)

Related

• Political isolation differs from personal loneliness in kind and cause (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• The self fragments into subject and object when stress ruptures immediate experience #complicates (0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 22
• Total abandonment and isolation can register as pleasure rather than dread #complicates (0.60) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 506
• Solitary instincts conflict with the gregarious self-interest required for society #expands (0.55) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2471
• The neurotic conflict between self-denial and self-assertion is resolved only through universal human connection #qualifies (0.50)