The rebel radio induced auditory hallucinations in colonists and collaborators

Evidence

On the other hand, the Voice of Algeria was imagined to be pronouncing death sentences by certain Algerian collaborators. Suffering from serious fits of depression, these men who usually belonged to the police services, would be attacked, insulted, convicted by the “rebel” radio. Likewise, European women as well as European men in outbreaks of anxiety would very clearly hear threats or condemnations in the Arabic language. Such phenomena were practically unknown before 1954. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 343

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Core to the reader’s research: did the European minority’s auditory hallucinations extend into medical/clinical settings, and how was this pathologized?
  • XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s question about how colonial permeation affected the European minority’s psychological state — hallucination as a symptom of colonial guilt. — connects to: Colonial collaborators hallucinated the rebel radio pronouncing death sentences; Radios let settlers resist cultural absorption by the native environment — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 261; Modern militaries use directed extreme sound itself as a weapon against people — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 415 (+2 more)
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 343

Broader Connections