Neurotic structure combines environmental pressures with the individual’s own mode of reacting to them

Evidence

The neurotic structure of an individual is simply the elaboration, the formation, the eruption within the ego, of conflictual clusters arising in part out of the environment and in part out of the purely personal way in which that individual reacts to these influences. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 299

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fanon’s structural definition of neurosis, substituting ‘structure’ for the French school’s ‘constitutional’—his conceptual hinge in this chapter.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 299
• XREF: connects to: Neurotic structure erupts from environment and the individual’s personal reactions combined.; Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation; Antillean neurosis is social rather than individual in origin (+9 more)

Related

• A change of environment cannot cure a neurosis the subject himself deploys as self-confirmation (similarity 0.81)
• Antillean neurosis is the product of a white-world-forming cultural situation, not of individual pathology (similarity 0.81)
• Classical psychoanalysis explains adult neurosis through the family constellation as its only frame. (similarity 0.81)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.79)
• Environment alone does not cause neurosis; personal reaction to it does. (similarity 0.79)
• Antillean neurosis is social rather than individual in origin (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Neurotic structure erupts from environment and the individual’s personal reactions combined. #corroborates (0.95)
• Trust formation is shaped by both internal system structures and external environmental conditions #expands (0.82)
• Environment alone does not cause neurosis; personal reaction to it does. #qualifies (0.70)
• A change of environment cannot cure a neurosis the subject himself deploys as self-confirmation #expands (0.55)
• Both colonized and colonizer behave according to a neurotic orientation #expands (0.50)
• Antillean neurosis is social rather than individual in origin #qualifies (0.45)
• Neurotic adult regression in colonial subjects is properly termed paralogical rather than logical #qualifies (0.40) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 991
• Individuality emerges from the layering and clash of overlapping social types #expands (0.35) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 284
• Psychoanalysis explains adult neurosis through the family constellation #expands (0.30)