The organic or constitutional basis of psychology is a myth one must transcend

Evidence

There can be no argument: In the domain of psychoanalysis as in that of philosophy, the organic, or constitutional, is a myth only for him who can go beyond it. If from a heuristic point of view one must totally deny the existence of the organic, the fact remains, and we can do nothing about it, that some individuals make every effort to fit into pre-established categories. Or, rather, yes, we can do something about it. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 296

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on Fanon’s invoking of Lacan’s 1932 thesis attacking the constitutional; connects to later anti-essentialist readings of race and psychology. — connects to: Consciousness’s transcendence is haunted by love, understanding, and dissolved truths — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 18; Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution.; The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668 (+6 more)

Related

• Myth is what consciousness must overcome to become human. (similarity 0.82)
• Consciousness’s transcendence is haunted by love, understanding, and dissolved truths (similarity 0.81)
• Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668
• Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. #corroborates (0.75)
• Both nature’s mechanism and history’s determinism oppress the modern self #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 163
• Enlightenment-based sociology fragments because theories depend on observers’ beliefs about human nature #complicates (0.75)
• Nature is constructed by the mind’s synthetic activity from raw sense perceptions #corroborates (0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 167
• Renaissance psychology theorized fantasized monsters as real perceived data #exemplifies (0.55)