For a reason-armed man, contact with unreason provokes the deepest neurosis.

Evidence

The psychoanalysts say that nothing is more traumatizing for the young child than his encounters with what is rational. I would personally say that for a man whose only weapon is reason there is nothing more neurotic than contact with unreason. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 428

Categorization

• DEFINE: Inverts the psychoanalytic trauma-of-the-rational doctrine to define the Black man’s neurosis of contact with unreason.
• XREF: This inversion foreshadows the whole rationalist-collapse arc that follows through 434-435. — connects to: For a reason-dependent man, encountering pure unreason is the most neurotic experience; Contact with unreason is most neurotic for a reason-armed man

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