Fanon’s sociogenic account holds that it is never merely the individual who is mentally ill but the pathological society of which they are part.

Evidence

Frantz Fanon (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

XREF: connects to: A normal colonial child becomes abnormal on contact with the white world; Fanon’s sociogenesis holds that the mental illness of the colonized subject is not caused by biological factors but by the subject’s alienation by the racial ideologies of colonial modernity. — Fanon on the Dialectic of Madness and Struggle — Theoria; Fanon’s theory of the ‘sociogenesis’ of mental illness critically absorbs Lévi-Strauss’s examination of the link between madness and the symbolic structure of society. — Disalienation and Structuralism (+1 more)

Fanon’s sociogenesis holds that the mental illness of the colonized subject is not caused by biological factors but by the subject’s alienation by the racial ideologies of colonial modernity. (similarity 0.92)
Fanon’s theory of the ‘sociogenesis’ of mental illness critically absorbs Lévi-Strauss’s examination of the link between madness and the symbolic structure of society. (similarity 0.90)
For Fanon the point of the sociogenic principle is to reveal the artificiality of the Black-white binary, which has no meaning outside the system of racial-colonial rule that births it. (similarity 0.87)
Fanon developed sociogeny to articulate how socially produced phenomena come to be seen as natural or ontogenetic predispositions of particular population groups. (similarity 0.87)
Fanon’s idea of sociogeny explains that human distress is shaped by social and economic conditions, challenging approaches that isolate problems within the individual, with distress often a… (similarity 0.86)
Fanon reads Freud as holding that a normal child in a normal family becomes a normal adult, then argues this developmental model does not apply in the colonial context. (similarity 0.83)
Fanon treats colonized subjects as historical agents, not mere projections (similarity 0.82)
Black alienation requires sociogeny beyond Freud’s ontogenetic and phylogenetic levels (similarity 0.78)
Fanon argues colonial subjects show psychotic-adjacent symptoms. (similarity 0.78)