The European patriarchal family produces about thirty percent neurotics
Evidence
Every experience, especially if it turns out to be sterile, has to become a component of reality and thus play a part in the restructuring of reality. That is to say that the patriarchal European family with its flaws, its failures, its vices, closely linked to the society that we know, produces about 30 per cent neurotics. The problem is to create, with the help of psychoanalytical, sociological, political lessons, a new family environment capable of reducing, if not of eliminating, the proportion of waste, in the asocial sense of the word. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 173
Categorization
- QUESTION: What data or source grounds this 30 percent figure for neurosis in the patriarchal family?
- XREF: Fanon’s psychoanalytic framing of family structure echoes the reader’s interest in how colonial/native family environments shape mental states. — connects to: Incest occurred in 30 percent of families in Italy’s most patriarchal rural regions