Mannoni claims the colonized’s inferiority complex predates colonization.

Evidence

Now, since this is M. Mannoni’s point of departure, why does he try to make the inferiority complex something that antedates colonization? Here one perceives the mechanism of explanation that, in psychiatry, would give us this: There are latent forms of psychosis that become overt as the result of a traumatic experience. Or, in somatic medicine, this: The appearance of varicose veins in a patient does not arise out of his being compelled to spend ten hours a day on his feet, but rather out of the constitutional weakness of his vein walls; his working conditions are only a complicating factor. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 317 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

1. My patient is suffering from an inferiority complex. His psychic structure is in danger of disintegration. What has to be done is to save him from this and, little by little, to rid him of this unconscious desire. … 2. If he is overwhelmed to such a degree by the wish to be white, it is because he lives in a society that makes his inferiority complex possible, in a society that derives its stability from the perpetuation of this complex, in a society that proclaims the superiority of one race; to the identical degree to which that society creates difficulties for him, he will find himself thrust into a neurotic situation. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 360 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Inferiority complexes intensify most among the most educated colonized people; Mannoni treats colonial inferiority complexes as pre-existing rather than produced by colonization — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 317; Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77 (+4 more)

Related

• Mannoni treats colonial inferiority complexes as pre-existing rather than produced by colonization (similarity 0.91)
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. (similarity 0.89)
• Language hierarchy alone does not create inferiority; colonization does (similarity 0.88)
• Society’s racist structure creates and perpetuates the colonized patient’s inferiority complex. (similarity 0.88)
• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate (similarity 0.87)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.87)
• Inferiority complexes intensify most among the most educated colonized people (similarity 0.86)
• Antillean inferiority is governed by a social fiction rather than a personal one (similarity 0.85)
• The educated colonized suffers an inferiority complex precisely upon assimilation and rejection. (similarity 0.84)
• The colonized person’s inferiority is created by the European’s superiority, not pre-existing. (similarity 0.84)
• Mannoni claimed colonized peoples unconsciously desired their own colonization (similarity 0.83)
• Both colonizer and colonized behave as neurotics trapped by inferiority and superiority. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial rule systematically instills an inferiority complex in the colonized (similarity 0.82)
• Mannoni reduces the Malagasy to a choice between inferiority and dependence. (similarity 0.82)
• The black man’s inferiority complex follows a double social and economic process. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Mannoni treats colonial inferiority complexes as pre-existing rather than produced by colonization #corroborates (0.90) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 317
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture #contradicts (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 77
• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate #contradicts (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 341
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. #contradicts (0.80)
• Society’s racist structure creates and perpetuates the colonized patient’s inferiority complex. #contradicts (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 360