Ego-withdrawal as a defense is impossible for the black man

Evidence

There are times when the black man is locked into his body. Now, “for a being who has acquired consciousness of himself and of his body, who has attained to the dialectic of subject and object, the body is no longer a cause of the structure of consciousness, it has become an object of consciousness.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 824 (#expands, via linked claim)

In terms of consciousness, the black consciousness is held out as an absolute density, as filled with itself, a stage preceding any invasion, any abolition of the ego by desire. Jean-Paul Sartre, in this work, has destroyed black zeal. In opposition to historical becoming, there had always been the unforeseeable. I needed to lose myself completely in negritude. One day, perhaps, in the depths of that unhappy romanticism… . — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 512 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black consciousness precedes the ego and resists external framing as a lack — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 512; The black man can become locked into his body as mere object — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 824; Most black men cannot reach the zone of nonbeing where authentic upheaval is born — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 17 (+4 more)

Related

• The black man can become locked into his body as mere object (similarity 0.91)
• Objecthood under the white gaze shatters the black man’s self into alienated fragments (similarity 0.89)
• Black consciousness precedes the ego and resists external framing as a lack (similarity 0.88)
• Black consciousness is immanent and whole, not a potential lacking universality (similarity 0.87)
• Being objectified as a toy drives the Negro toward explosive acting-out (similarity 0.85)
• The black man becomes black only in relation to the white man (similarity 0.84)
• The black man’s only perceived escape from insignificance leads into the white world. (similarity 0.82)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (similarity 0.81)
• Achieving morality requires the Negro to erase his own image from consciousness (similarity 0.81)
• The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance (similarity 0.80)
• The black man aims all efforts at achieving a white existence. (similarity 0.80)
• The black man’s need to prove equality aims to convince himself, not others (similarity 0.79)
• For the black man there is only one destiny, and it is white (similarity 0.79)
• The Negro’s neurotic conflict offers only two unhealthy exits before a universal leap (similarity 0.79)
• Most black men cannot reach the zone of nonbeing where authentic upheaval is born (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Contact with the white world collapses the Negro’s ego into other-directed behavior #expands (0.70)
• Black consciousness precedes the ego and resists external framing as a lack #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 512
• The black man can become locked into his body as mere object #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 824
• The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance #expands (0.60)
• Most black men cannot reach the zone of nonbeing where authentic upheaval is born #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 17
• The black man’s need to prove equality aims to convince himself, not others #qualifies (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 238
• The Negro’s fear is of his own unknown self being discovered #responds-to (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 549