The Antillean is made white by unconscious processes while lacking white skin

Evidence

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

Categorization

  • XREF: Ties to the reader’s education question: the ‘real white man’ (or encounter with external Europe) betrays the locally educated subject’s white self-image. — connects to: A normal colonial child becomes abnormal on contact with the white world; Antilleans internalize European archetypes such that their anima and animus are white; Antillean neuroses stem from a white cultural situation imposed through media (+10 more)

Broader Connections