The myth of the Negro can itself become a decisive cause of psychological alienation.

Evidence

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

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s psychoanalytic goal—Fanon presents a clinical case where internalized racial myth produces pathology. — connects to: The Antillean’s late-realized self-recognition as Negro triggers Negrophobia and neurosis; A white woman’s alienation resulted from childhood fear of the Negro; Authentic understanding of the Negro requires breaking cultural crystallization (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Both the colonized Negro and the colonizing white man suffer a neurotic alienation #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 214