Family structure is internalized into the superego and projected into political behavior
Evidence
The white family is the agent of a certain system. The society is indeed the sum of all the families in it. The family is an institution that prefigures a broader institution: the social or the national group. Both turn on the same axes. The white family is the workshop in which one is shaped and trained for life in society. “The family structure is internalized in the superego,” Marcus says, “and projected into political [though I would say social] behavior.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 574
Categorization
- DEFINE: Marcus’s schema grounds the psychoanalytic mechanics the reader is studying.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 574
- XREF: connects to: Revolutionary committees inverted generational authority by making sons tax their own fathers; Family structure mirrors and reproduces national authority in Europe; Learned family authority patterns shape how people respond to all authority (+12 more)
Related
- Family structure mirrors and reproduces national authority in Europe (similarity 0.89)
- Learned family authority patterns shape how people respond to all authority (similarity 0.79)
- Ordinary people conceive family as disinterested love, not power structure (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them
#expands(0.60) - Ideological positions reproduce social positions in transfigured form.
#corroborates(0.55)