Fanon argues colonial subjects show psychotic-adjacent symptoms.

Evidence

In the end, Bigger Thomas acts. To put an end to his tension, he acts, he responds to the world’s anticipation. So it is with the character in If He Hollers Let Him Go28 –who does precisely what he did not want to do. That big blonde who was always in his way, weak, sensual, offered, open, fearing (desiring) rape, became his mistress in the end. The Negro is a toy in the white man’s hands; so, in order to shatter the hellish cycle, he explodes. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 553 (#expands, via linked claim)

The truth is that the study of an occupied people, militarily subject to an implacable domination, requires documentation and checking difficult to combine. It is not the soil that is occupied. It is not the ports or the airdromes. French colonialism has settled itself in the very center of the Algerian individual and has undertaken a sustained work of cleanup, of expulsion of self, of rationally pursued mutilation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial subjects act out violently to end unbearable psychological tension — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 553; Colonial hysteria manifested in murderous acts for settlers but suicide-like self-exposure for the colonized; Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222 (+4 more)

Related

• Colonial subjects act out violently to end unbearable psychological tension (similarity 0.90)
• Colonial hysteria manifested in murderous acts for settlers but suicide-like self-exposure for the colonized (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial violence created a spiritual void more powerful than class conflict. (similarity 0.85)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.83)
• 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 0.82)
• Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation (similarity 0.81)
• Fanon treats colonized subjects as historical agents, not mere projections (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial selfhood is constituted through the violent gaze of the Other. (similarity 0.80)
• A detailed colonial psychology study can still miss its real coordinates. (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial utopias functioned as blueprints of distress, not conquest. (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial occupation extends into the individual body and daily life itself (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial apparatuses manufacture inferiority in the colonized, leading them to serve colonial agency. (similarity 0.79)
• Both colonizer and colonized behave neurotically toward each other. (similarity 0.79)
• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation (similarity 0.79)
• Fanon’s analytic aim is freeing blacks from colonial-produced complexes (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial subjects act out violently to end unbearable psychological tension #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 553
• Colonial hysteria manifested in murderous acts for settlers but suicide-like self-exposure for the colonized #expands (0.60)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222
• Colonial and settler hysteria differ in that settlers translate fear into murderous acts #qualifies (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 281
• Fanon’s method seeks the meaning of racist phenomena, not their mere collection. #expands (0.40) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 612