The Antillean’s late-realized self-recognition as Negro triggers Negrophobia and neurosis

Evidence

It is Bigger Thomas–he is afraid, he is terribly afraid. He is afraid, but of what is he afraid? Of himself. No one knows yet who he is, but he knows that fear will fill the world when the world finds out. And when the world knows, the world always expects something of the Negro. He is afraid lest the world know, he is afraid of the fear that the world would feel if the world knew. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 549 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

At the age of twenty–at the time, that is, when the collective unconscious has been more or less lost, or is resistant at least to being raised to the conscious level–the Antillean recognizes that he is living an error. Why is that? Quite simply because–and this is very important–the Antillean has recognized himself as a Negro, but, by virtue of an ethical transit, he also feels (collective unconscious) that one is a Negro to the degree to which one is wicked, sloppy, malicious, instinctual. Everything that is the opposite of these Negro modes of behavior is white. This must be recognized as the source of Negrophobia in the Antillean. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671 (#expands, via linked claim)

Before concluding this chapter, I should like to abstract a case study, for access to which I must thank the medical director of the women’s division of the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Ylie. The case clarifies the point of view that I am defending here. It proves that, at its extreme, the myth of the Negro, the idea of the Negro, can become the decisive factor of an authentic alienation. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 718 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Negro’s fear is of his own unknown self being discovered — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 549; The Antillean’s Negrophobia springs from an internalized white moral code; Antillean Negrophobia stems from equating blackness with immorality via ‘ethical transit’ — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671 (+20 more)

Related

• The Antillean’s Negrophobia springs from an internalized white moral code (similarity 0.89)
• The Negro’s fear is of his own unknown self being discovered (similarity 0.88)
• The young Antillean Negro makes the nigger the scapegoat of his moral life (similarity 0.88)
• The patient’s alienation stems from fear of the Negro aggravated by circumstance (similarity 0.86)
• Antillean neuroses stem from a white cultural situation imposed through media (similarity 0.86)
• Antillean Negrophobia stems from equating blackness with immorality via ‘ethical transit’ (similarity 0.85)
• A white woman’s alienation resulted from childhood fear of the Negro (similarity 0.85)
• The patient’s psychoneurosis rested on a fear of imaginary Negroes formed at age twelve (similarity 0.84)
• The myth of the Negro can drive genuine psychiatric alienation (similarity 0.84)
• Antillean morality requires erasing blackness from consciousness (similarity 0.84)
• The myth of the Negro can itself become a decisive cause of psychological alienation. (similarity 0.84)
• The encounter with the real white man triggers the Antillean’s recognition of betrayal (similarity 0.84)
• Negrophobia operates on the biological and instinctual level. (similarity 0.83)
• Blackness can be a screen onto which neurosis projects its causes (similarity 0.82)
• Du Bois described the Negro as ‘born with a veil… always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.’ (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The Negro’s fear is of his own unknown self being discovered #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 549
• Antillean Negrophobia stems from equating blackness with immorality via ‘ethical transit’ #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 671
• The Antillean’s Negrophobia springs from an internalized white moral code #expands (0.75)
• The myth of the Negro can itself become a decisive cause of psychological alienation. #corroborates (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 718
• The myth of the Negro can drive genuine psychiatric alienation #corroborates (0.70)
• Every Antillean neurosis is the product of his cultural situation #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 585
• Antillean neuroses stem from a white cultural situation imposed through media #expands (0.65)
• Antillean neurosis is social rather than individual in origin #complicates (0.60)
• The patient’s alienation stems from fear of the Negro aggravated by circumstance #corroborates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 750
• Antilleans internalize European archetypes so fully that they become anti-Negro #expands (0.60)
• Rational argument cannot correct Negrophobia because it is prelogical #expands (0.60)
• Negrophobia operates on the biological and instinctual level. #expands (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 601
• The Antillean’s unconscious is populated entirely by white archetypes #expands (0.55)
• A white woman’s alienation resulted from childhood fear of the Negro #exemplifies (0.50)