Refusing his blackness creates in Jean Veneuse an unconscious irrevocable rift

Evidence

Jean Veneuse is the crusader of the inner life. When he sees Andrée again, when he is face to face with this woman whom he has wanted for months and months, he takes refuge in silence, the eloquent silence of those who “know the artificiality of words and acts.” — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 291 (#expands, via linked claim)

Cultural imposition is easily accomplished in Martinique. The ethical transit encounters no obstacle. But the real white man is waiting for me. As soon as possible he will tell me that it is not enough to try to be white, but that a white totality must be achieved. It is only then that I shall recognize the betrayal. –L et us conclude. An Antillean is made white by the collective unconscious, by a large part of his individual unconscious, and by the virtual totality of his mechanism of individuation. The color of his skin, of which there is no mention in Jung, is black. All the inabilities to understand are born of this blunder. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 672 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Veneuse retreats into silence at the moment of direct encounter with the beloved — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 291; Veneuse’s blackness is a rationalization, not the cause, of his neurosis.; Antillean morality requires erasing blackness from consciousness (+2 more)

Related

• Veneuse retreats into silence at the moment of direct encounter with the beloved (similarity 0.88)
• Veneuse’s blackness is a rationalization, not the cause, of his neurosis. (similarity 0.82)
• The Antillean’s unconscious is populated entirely by white archetypes (similarity 0.80)
• The Antillean is made white by unconscious processes while lacking white skin (similarity 0.79)
• The anguished Negro must prove his whiteness to himself and others (similarity 0.79)
• Blackness can be a screen onto which neurosis projects its causes (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Veneuse’s blackness is a rationalization, not the cause, of his neurosis. #contradicts (0.75)
• Veneuse retreats into silence at the moment of direct encounter with the beloved #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 291
• The Antillean is made white by unconscious processes while lacking white skin #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 672
• The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance #expands (0.60)
• Antillean morality requires erasing blackness from consciousness #corroborates (0.50)