Hallucinated protective voices parallel the colonized creating a national voice

Evidence

The appearance of themes of morbid protection, their importance as a technique of self-defense and even of self-cure in the historic development of mental disease, have already been studied in classic psychiatry. Plagued by his accusing “voices,” the victim of hallucinations has no other recourse but to create friendly voices. This mechanism of transformation into its antithesis that we here point out has its counterpart in the disintegrating colonial situation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 341 (#expands, via linked claim)

The old monologue of the colonial situation, already shaken by the existence of the struggle, disappeared completely by 1956. The Voice of Fighting Algeria and all the voices picked up by the receiver now revealed to the Algerian the tenuous, very relative character, in short, the imposture of the French voice presented until now as the only one. The occupier’s voice was stripped of its authority. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 329 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial authority depends on the colonized hearing no other voice — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 329; Friendly voices arise as psychiatric self-defense against accusing voices; Hallucinating patients create protective counter-voices to defend against accusing ones — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 341 (+3 more)

Related

• Friendly voices arise as psychiatric self-defense against accusing voices (similarity 0.92)
• Hallucinating patients create protective counter-voices to defend against accusing ones (similarity 0.90)
• Colonial authority depends on the colonized hearing no other voice (similarity 0.84)
• Monologue rather than dialogue governed colonial encounters since the Hellenistic era (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Hallucinating patients create protective counter-voices to defend against accusing ones #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 341
• Friendly voices arise as psychiatric self-defense against accusing voices #corroborates (0.60)
• Colonial authority depends on the colonized hearing no other voice #qualifies (0.40) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 329