The neurotic conflict between self-denial and self-assertion is resolved only through universal human connection

Evidence

The only means of breaking this vicious circle that throws me back on myself is to restore to the other, through mediation and recognition, his human reality, which is different from natural reality. The other has to perform the same operation. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 782 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

When I read that page, I felt that I had been robbed of my last chance. I said to my friends, “The generation of the younger black poets has just suffered a blow that can never be forgiven.” Help had been sought from a friend of the colored peoples, and that friend had found no better response than to point out the relativity of what they were doing. For once, that bom Hegelian had forgotten that consciousness has to lose itself in the night of the absolute, the only condition to attain to consciousness of self. In opposition to rationalism, he summoned up the negative side, but he forgot that this negativity draws its worth from an almost substantive absoluteness. A consciousness committed to experience is ignorant, has to be ignorant, of the essences and the determinations of its being. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 508 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A change of environment cannot cure a neurosis the subject himself deploys as self-confirmation; Self-consciousness depends on being recognized by another consciousness; Mutual recognition is the sole escape from solipsistic self-enclosure — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 782 (+7 more)

Related

• Self-certainty requires recognition from the other (similarity 0.89)
• Self-consciousness depends on being recognized by another consciousness (similarity 0.87)
• Consciousness must lose itself in the absolute to attain self-consciousness (similarity 0.87)
• Mutual recognition is the sole escape from solipsistic self-enclosure (similarity 0.85)
• Recognition given without struggle never constitutes genuine self-consciousness (similarity 0.82)
• Consciousness’s transcendence is haunted by love, understanding, and dissolved truths (similarity 0.82)
• Human worth depends on recognition by another person (similarity 0.81)
• Mutual recognition establishes a symmetrical dependence between self and Other (similarity 0.80)
• Mutual eye contact is inherently reciprocal and self-revealing (similarity 0.79)
• A change of environment cannot cure a neurosis the subject himself deploys as self-confirmation (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Self-consciousness depends on being recognized by another consciousness #corroborates (0.75)
• Mutual recognition is the sole escape from solipsistic self-enclosure #corroborates (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 782
• Consciousness must lose itself in the absolute to attain self-consciousness #qualifies (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 508