The Oedipus complex does not arise among Antillean Negroes

Evidence

It is too often forgotten that neurosis is not a basic element of human reality. Like it or not, the Oedipus complex is far from coming into being among Negroes. It might be argued, as Malinowski contends, that the matriarchal structure is the only reason for its absence. But, putting aside the question whether the ethnologists are not so imbued with the complexes of their own civilization that they are compelled to try to find them duplicated in the peoples they study, it would be relatively easy for me to show that in the French Antilles 97 per cent of the families cannot produce one Oedipal neurosis. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 584 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

14. On this point psychoanalysts will be reluctant to share my view. Dr. Lacan, for instance, talks of the “abundance” of the Oedipus complex. But even if the young boy has to kill his father, it is still necessary for the father to accept being killed. I am reminded of what Hegel said: “The cradle of the child is the tomb of the parents”; and of Nicolas Calas’ Foyer d’incendie and of Jean Lacroix’ Force et faiblesses de la famille. The collapse of moral values in France after the war was perhaps the result of the defeat of that moral being which the nation represented. We know what such traumatisms on the family level may produce. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 984 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: The Oedipus complex is far from arising among Negroes in the Antilles — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 584; The absence of the Oedipus complex in the Antilles blocks typical neurotic homosexuality; The Oedipus complex requires a father who accepts being symbolically killed — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 984 (+3 more)

Related

• The Oedipus complex is far from arising among Negroes in the Antilles (similarity 0.95)
• The Oedipus complex requires a father who accepts being symbolically killed (similarity 0.92)
• The absence of the Oedipus complex in the Antilles blocks typical neurotic homosexuality (similarity 0.90)
• Freudian superego formation requires an Oedipus complex the child can repress. (similarity 0.89)
• Property inheritance structures shape the Oedipus complex’s strength. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The Oedipus complex is far from arising among Negroes in the Antilles #corroborates (1.00) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 584
• The absence of the Oedipus complex in the Antilles blocks typical neurotic homosexuality #expands (0.85)
• The Oedipus complex requires a father who accepts being symbolically killed #qualifies (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 984