The black man’s inferiority complex follows a double social and economic process.

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The black man’s alienation is explained by sociogeny, not merely individual psychology.; Society’s racist structure creates and perpetuates the colonized patient’s inferiority complex. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 360; The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance (+6 more)

Related

• Society’s racist structure creates and perpetuates the colonized patient’s inferiority complex. (similarity 0.87)
• Fanon derived the black desire for whiteness from economic and social structure (similarity 0.85)
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. (similarity 0.84)
• Antillean inferiority is governed by a social fiction rather than a personal one (similarity 0.83)
• The black man’s alienation is explained by sociogeny, not merely individual psychology. (similarity 0.83)
• Fanon derived the black inferiority complex from economic subordination and racial hierarchy (similarity 0.82)
• Mannoni claims the colonized’s inferiority complex predates colonization. (similarity 0.81)
• The black man’s only perceived escape from insignificance leads into the white world. (similarity 0.80)
• Both colonizer and colonized behave as neurotics trapped by inferiority and superiority. (similarity 0.80)
• Black alienation requires sociogenic analysis beyond individual psychoanalysis (similarity 0.79)
• The black man becomes black only in relation to the white man (similarity 0.78)
• Misrecognition of minority identities inflicts real damage on those so mirrored. (similarity 0.78)
• The colonized’s inferiority is created by the racist, not innate (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Society’s racist structure creates and perpetuates the colonized patient’s inferiority complex. #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 360
• The racist creates the inferiority of the colonized. #corroborates (0.75)
• The black man’s alienation is explained by sociogeny, not merely individual psychology. #expands (0.70)
• Economic and sociological paradigms of race correct each other’s weaknesses but both remain inadequate #expands (0.70)
• A white-supremacist society generates the black man’s neurotic wish to be white #corroborates (0.70)
• Antillean inferiority is governed by a social fiction rather than a personal one #corroborates (0.65)
• The Black man is overdetermined from without, enslaved by appearance #expands (0.60)
• The Negro’s whiteness-seeking stems from overcompensation for racial inferiority #expands (0.60)