Revolution strips away the mental handicaps produced by 130 years of colonial oppression

Evidence

We say firmly that Algerian man and Algerian society have stripped themselves of the mental sedimentation and of the emotional and intellectual handicaps which resulted from 130 years of oppression. … This same colonialism that held the people in the tight meshes of the police and of the army is today wounded to the death. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 619

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347; Colonial subjects act out violently to end unbearable psychological tension — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 553; Centuries of oppression produce physiological violence in the colonized — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 71 (+4 more)

Related

• Centuries of oppression produce physiological violence in the colonized (similarity 0.85)
• Curing the colonial neurosis requires changing both individual and society (similarity 0.84)
• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory (similarity 0.82)
• Colonization fundamentally reshapes the colonized psyche, it does not merely add to it. (similarity 0.82)
• The revolution transformed customs, language, and master-slave relations (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial violence created a spiritual void more powerful than class conflict. (similarity 0.81)
• A detailed colonial psychology study can still miss its real coordinates. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial confinement degraded Algerian women’s bodily mobility and assurance (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial violence itself, not just revolutionary solidarity, reshaped Algerian feminine society (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial contact shattered Madagascar’s prior psychological mechanisms (similarity 0.81)
• Any social revolution in Algeria required breaking colonial ties first (similarity 0.81)
• French colonialism occupied the Algerian individual’s self, not merely the territory (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial power relations were gendered and psychoanalytically structured (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial utopias functioned as blueprints of distress, not conquest. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Centuries of oppression produce physiological violence in the colonized #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 71
• Colonial subjects resist the amputation of their identity yet find agency impossible #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 556
• Colonial subjects act out violently to end unbearable psychological tension #qualifies (0.45) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 553
• The revolution transformed customs, language, and master-slave relations #expands (0.40)
• Colonial contact shattered Madagascar’s prior psychological mechanisms #exemplifies (0.40)
• Emancipation granted from without caused psychoses and sudden deaths among freed slaves #exemplifies (0.30) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 796