The hypnotic image of Negro drumming triggered the patient’s fear of losing her mother.

Evidence

Deep and concentric, the circles expanded and contracted to the rhythm of a Negro tom-tom. This tom-tom made the patient think of the danger of losing her parents, especially her mother. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 727

Categorization

• XREF: This clinical association of Negritude imagery with maternal loss is highly relevant to the reader’s psychoanalysis of colonial subjects’ internal conflicts. — connects to: The Negro tom-tom symbol provokes the patient’s fear of maternal loss; The patient’s psychoneurosis rested on a fear of imaginary Negroes formed at age twelve — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 746

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• The Negro tom-tom symbol provokes the patient’s fear of maternal loss (similarity 0.94)
• Childhood exposure to Negro music triggered fears of imaginary cannibal Negroes (similarity 0.86)
• A colonial administrator’s home exposed his daughter to fear of Negroes via tom-tom music (similarity 0.86)
• Childhood exposure to Negro music created the patient’s later fear of Negroes (similarity 0.84)
• The patient’s psychoneurosis rested on a fear of imaginary Negroes formed at age twelve (similarity 0.80)