Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body

Evidence

The reactions and the behavior patterns to which the arrival of the European in Madagascar gave rise were not tacked on to a pre-existing set. There was no addition to the earlier psychic whole. If, for instance, Martians undertook to colonize the earth men—not to initiate them into Martian culture but to colonize them—we should be doubtful of the persistence of any earth personality. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347 (#expands, via linked claim)

Every colonized people–in other words, every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originalityfinds itself face to face with the language of the civilizing nation; that is, with the culture of the mother country. The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country’s cultural standards. He becomes whiter as he renounces his blackness, his jungle. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Initially subjective, the breaches made in colonialism are the result of a victory of the colonized over their old fear and over the atmosphere of despair distilled day after day by a colonialism that has incrusted itself with the prospect of enduring forever. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonized man undergoes inner transformation in rejecting oppression; A change of environment cannot cure a neurosis the subject himself deploys as self-confirmation; Intellectual alienation is a creation of a rigidified, closed middle-class society. (+26 more)

Related

• Colonized man undergoes inner transformation in rejecting oppression (similarity 0.89)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.86)
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry (similarity 0.86)
• Colonized people become psychologically whiter as they adopt the mother country’s culture (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life (similarity 0.85)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.84)
• The colonized Antillean internalizes the culture that enslaves him (similarity 0.83)
• Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial contact shattered Madagascar’s prior psychological mechanisms (similarity 0.83)
• Affirming the colonized self via rupture cannot resolve psychological damage (similarity 0.83)
• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial violence created a spiritual void more powerful than class conflict. (similarity 0.82)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77
• Cultural imposition forces colonized subjects to identify against their own ancestry #corroborates (0.70)
• Colonial subjects resist the amputation of their identity yet find agency impossible #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 556
• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself #corroborates (0.65)
• Affirming the colonized self via rupture cannot resolve psychological damage #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 106
• Depriving colonized peoples of their own philosophy amounts to high treason #expands (0.60) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 216
• Alienation takes different forms for educated and laboring colonized men #qualifies (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 818
• Early solitude and cloistering create hypersensitivity and self-rejection #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 276
• Encountering an alien culture can justify active hatred over automatic respect #expands (0.50) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 96