Society’s racist structure creates and perpetuates the colonized patient’s inferiority complex.

Evidence

1. My patient is suffering from an inferiority complex. His psychic structure is in danger of disintegration. What has to be done is to save him from this and, little by little, to rid him of this unconscious desire. … 2. If he is overwhelmed to such a degree by the wish to be white, it is because he lives in a society that makes his inferiority complex possible, in a society that derives its stability from the perpetuation of this complex, in a society that proclaims the superiority of one race; to the identical degree to which that society creates difficulties for him, he will find himself thrust into a neurotic situation. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 360

Categorization

• XREF: This is the psychological mechanism core to the reader’s psychoanalytic analysis of colonial subjects receiving conflicting narratives. — connects to: The black man’s inferiority complex follows a double social and economic process.; Racial juxtaposition itself generates a massive psychoexistential complex. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 54; Inferiority complexes intensify most among the most educated colonized people (+14 more)

Related

• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. (similarity 0.92)
• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate (similarity 0.88)
• Mannoni claims the colonized’s inferiority complex predates colonization. (similarity 0.88)
• The black man’s inferiority complex follows a double social and economic process. (similarity 0.87)
• Antillean inferiority is governed by a social fiction rather than a personal one (similarity 0.85)
• The colonized person’s inferiority is created by the European’s superiority, not pre-existing. (similarity 0.84)
• Racial juxtaposition itself generates a massive psychoexistential complex. (similarity 0.84)
• Colonized peoples acquire inferiority complexes through suppression of local culture (similarity 0.83)
• Misrecognition of minority identities inflicts real damage on those so mirrored. (similarity 0.83)
• Both colonizer and colonized behave as neurotics trapped by inferiority and superiority. (similarity 0.83)
• Inferiority complexes intensify most among the most educated colonized people (similarity 0.82)
• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body (similarity 0.80)
• Mannoni treats colonial inferiority complexes as pre-existing rather than produced by colonization (similarity 0.80)
• Fanon derived the black desire for whiteness from economic and social structure (similarity 0.80)
• The educated colonized suffers an inferiority complex precisely upon assimilation and rejection. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Hostile society alienates the colonized subject from his own body #corroborates (0.60)
• Colonial medicine rationed by race, poisoning the colonized view of the European minority #corroborates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 448