Non-European cultures are positioned as arrested at Narcissus, barred from Oedipus

Evidence

Thus you might say that I am interested in the psychoanalytic Narcissus because, in a kind of “colonial” reconstellation of the matter of “Greece,” he is made to stand at the door of the free discourse of Oedipus. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1448

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the colonial reconstellation thesis: Narcissus blocks non-Western people from the ‘free discourse’ Oedipus supposedly grants Europeans.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing interests in how European thought structurally positions the subaltern outsider. — connects to: The Oedipus complex does not arise among Antillean Negroes; The Oedipus complex is far from arising among Negroes in the Antilles — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 584

Broader Connections

• The Oedipus complex does not arise among Antillean Negroes #complicates (0.95)
• The Oedipus complex is far from arising among Negroes in the Antilles #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 584