The patient’s psychoneurosis rested on a fear of imaginary Negroes formed at age twelve

Evidence

I do not want to elaborate on the infrastructure of this psychoneurosis. The questions put by the chief psychiatrist had brought out a fear of imaginary Negroes–a fear first experienced at the age of twelve. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 746

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Europe’s contact with black peoples made Negroes the projected principle of evil; A white woman’s alienation resulted from childhood fear of the Negro; Childhood exposure to Negro music triggered fears of imaginary cannibal Negroes (+10 more)

Related

• Childhood exposure to Negro music triggered fears of imaginary cannibal Negroes (similarity 0.88)
• Childhood exposure to Negro music created the patient’s later fear of Negroes (similarity 0.87)
• The patient’s alienation stems from fear of the Negro aggravated by circumstance (similarity 0.87)
• A white woman’s alienation resulted from childhood fear of the Negro (similarity 0.85)
• The Antillean’s late-realized self-recognition as Negro triggers Negrophobia and neurosis (similarity 0.84)
• A colonial administrator’s home exposed his daughter to fear of Negroes via tom-tom music (similarity 0.84)
• Blackness can be a screen onto which neurosis projects its causes (similarity 0.83)
• Negrophobic women project onto Negroes the sexual powers their own lives lacked (similarity 0.82)
• The neurosis precedes and motivates the racial obsession, not the reverse (similarity 0.82)
• Racially-inflected neurosis may stem from childhood abandonment rather than race itself (similarity 0.82)
• The Negro’s fear is of his own unknown self being discovered (similarity 0.82)
• The myth of the Negro can drive genuine psychiatric alienation (similarity 0.81)
• The hypnotic image of Negro drumming triggered the patient’s fear of losing her mother. (similarity 0.80)
• The myth of the Negro can itself become a decisive cause of psychological alienation. (similarity 0.79)
• Negrophobia operates on the biological and instinctual level. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The Antillean’s late-realized self-recognition as Negro triggers Negrophobia and neurosis #corroborates (0.70)
• The neurosis precedes and motivates the racial obsession, not the reverse #contradicts (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 292
• The hypnotic image of Negro drumming triggered the patient’s fear of losing her mother. #complicates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 727
• Projection makes the Negro the fixed symbol of base emotions in European therapy #corroborates (0.50)
• Racially-inflected neurosis may stem from childhood abandonment rather than race itself #contradicts (0.40)