The Oedipus complex is far from arising among Negroes in the Antilles

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

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the universalism of Freudian psychoanalysis — relevant to the reader’s psychoanalytic reading of colonial subjects. — connects to: The Oedipus complex does not arise among Antillean Negroes; 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 does not arise among Antillean Negroes (similarity 0.95)
• The absence of the Oedipus complex in the Antilles blocks typical neurotic homosexuality (similarity 0.91)
• The Oedipus complex requires a father who accepts being symbolically killed (similarity 0.88)
• Freudian superego formation requires an Oedipus complex the child can repress. (similarity 0.86)
• Non-European cultures are positioned as arrested at Narcissus, barred from Oedipus (similarity 0.83)
• Property inheritance structures shape the Oedipus complex’s strength. (similarity 0.81)
• Antillean neurosis is social rather than individual in origin (similarity 0.79)
• Only psychoanalytical interpretation can expose the affects structuring the colonial complex. (similarity 0.79)
• Martinican homosexuality arises in Europe as a livelihood rather than neurosis (similarity 0.79)
• Every Antillean neurosis is the product of his cultural situation (similarity 0.78)
• Classical psychoanalysis explains adult neurosis through the family constellation as its only frame. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The Oedipus complex requires a father who accepts being symbolically killed #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 984