Racially-inflected neurosis may stem from childhood abandonment rather than race itself

Evidence

Jean Veneuse is a neurotic, and his color is only an attempt to explain his psychic structure. If this objective difference had not existed, he would have manufactured it out of nothing. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 292 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial neurosis does not stem from a repressed personal trauma; Blackness can be a screen onto which neurosis projects its causes; Antillean neurosis is social rather than individual in origin (+5 more)

Related

• Blackness can be a screen onto which neurosis projects its causes (similarity 0.93)
• The neurosis precedes and motivates the racial obsession, not the reverse (similarity 0.91)
• Veneuse’s blackness is a rationalization, not the cause, of his neurosis. (similarity 0.83)
• The patient’s psychoneurosis rested on a fear of imaginary Negroes formed at age twelve (similarity 0.82)
• Antillean neuroses stem from a white cultural situation imposed through media (similarity 0.81)
• Antillean neurosis is the product of a white-world-forming cultural situation, not of individual pathology (similarity 0.80)
• Abandonment-neurotics feel perpetually excluded and unconsciously court rejection (similarity 0.80)
• The Antillean’s late-realized self-recognition as Negro triggers Negrophobia and neurosis (similarity 0.80)
• Every Antillean neurosis is the product of his cultural situation (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The neurosis precedes and motivates the racial obsession, not the reverse #contradicts (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 292
• Blackness can be a screen onto which neurosis projects its causes #qualifies (0.70)
• The Antillean’s late-realized self-recognition as Negro triggers Negrophobia and neurosis #contradicts (0.60)
• Antillean neurosis is social rather than individual in origin #complicates (0.50)
• Abandonment-neurotics feel perpetually excluded and unconsciously court rejection #expands (0.45)