Every Antillean neurosis is the product of his cultural situation

Evidence

With the exception of a few misfits within the closed environment, we can say that every neurosis, every abnormal manifestation, every affective erethism in an Antillean is the product of his cultural situation. In other words, there is a constellation of postulates, a series of propositions that slowly and subtly–with the help of books, newspapers, schools and their texts, advertisements, films, radio–work their way into one’s mind and shape one’s view of the world of the group to which one belongs. In the Antilles that view of the world is white because no black voice exists. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 585

Categorization

• XREF: Directly answers the reader’s question: education media (schools, texts, films) shape the colonial subject’s white worldview. — connects to: The Antillean’s late-realized self-recognition as Negro triggers Negrophobia and neurosis; The encounter with the real white man triggers the Antillean’s recognition of betrayal; Antillean neuroses stem from a white cultural situation imposed through media (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Antillean neurosis is social rather than individual in origin #corroborates (0.85)
• Life and its cultural forms are fundamentally in tension #complicates (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 837