Fanon derived the black inferiority complex from economic subordination and racial hierarchy

Evidence

Fanon, in fact, adopts a more properly Adlerian perspective when he writes “if there is an inferiority complex it is the outcome of a double process: primarily economic and subsequently the internalisation - or better the epidermalisation - of this inferiority” (Fanon, 1986). If the black African patient is suffering from an inferiority complex, and desires to be white, this desire has to be derived from the social structure and the fact that he (sic) lives in a society which makes his inferiority complex possible by proclaiming the superiority of one race over another. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1338

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Fanon’s ‘epidermalisation’ concept — the idea that social inferiority is inscribed on the body itself.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the trajectory from Adler’s socialist reading of inferiority through Mannoni’s repudiated ‘dependency complex’ to Fanon’s re-grounding of it in economics — what does this genealogy tell us about psychoanalysis as a political instrument?
• XREF: connects to: Fanon derived the black desire for whiteness from economic and social structure — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1338