The Negro’s racial drama stays conscious because it is played out in the open

Evidence

Then there is the unconscious. Since the racial drama is played out in the open, the black man has no time to “make it unconscious.” The white man, on the other hand, succeeds in doing so to a certain extent, because a new element appears: guilt. The Negro’s inferiority or superiority complex or his feeling of equality is conscious. These feelings forever chill him. They make his drama. In him there is none of the affective amnesia characteristic of the typical neurotic. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 578

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contrasts the black man’s conscious racial drama with the white man’s guilt-driven unconsciousness — key to the reader’s psychoanalytic framing.
• XREF: connects to: Being objectified as a toy drives the Negro toward explosive acting-out; French Negroes internalize conflict while American Negroes wage it openly

Related

• Being objectified as a toy drives the Negro toward explosive acting-out (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• French Negroes internalize conflict while American Negroes wage it openly #complicates (0.60)
• Being objectified as a toy drives the Negro toward explosive acting-out #expands (0.40)