Family structure mirrors and reproduces national authority in Europe
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 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: The European family mirrors the nation so home values carry into adult life; Family structure is internalized into the superego and projected into political behavior — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 574; Learned family authority patterns shape how people respond to all authority (+6 more)
Related
- Family structure is internalized into the superego and projected into political behavior (similarity 0.89)
- Learned family authority patterns shape how people respond to all authority (similarity 0.81)
- The family’s anti-authoritarian elements serve to stabilize existing authority relations (similarity 0.79)
- Ordinary people conceive family as disinterested love, not power structure (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- The European family mirrors the nation so home values carry into adult life
#expands(0.60) - Learned family authority patterns shape how people respond to all authority
#expands(0.55) - Family structure is internalized into the superego and projected into political behavior
#expands(0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 574 - Historic marriages can reshape national power structures.
#expands(0.40) — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 313