The white woman’s pursuit of Negro lovers sought self-dissolution she could not attain

Evidence

One must recognize that what she wanted was the destruction, the disolution, of her being on a sexual level. Every experiment that she made with a Negro reinforced her limitations. This delirium of orgasm was unattainable. She could not experience it, so she avenged herself by losing herself in speculation. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 616

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how does this fantasy of self-dissolution through the racialized Other compare across colonial and metropolitan subjects?
• XREF: connects to: A white woman’s alienation resulted from childhood fear of the Negro; White identification with the Negro springs from projected fear of retaliation; The white woman’s rape fantasy displaces onto the Negro an aggression the father rejected (+4 more)

Related

• The white woman’s rape fantasy displaces onto the Negro an aggression the father rejected (similarity 0.89)
• A black woman’s longing to marry white reflects a vast internalized delusion (similarity 0.83)
• White identification with the Negro springs from projected fear of retaliation (similarity 0.82)
• Literary descriptions reduce the Negro to a penis in white fantasy (similarity 0.82)
• The fantasy of Negro sexuality exceeds any actual sexual experience with them (similarity 0.82)
• White men’s racial hatred of Negroes is a disguised sexual revenge (similarity 0.81)
• The Negro becomes the depositary of the white girl’s uninvested aggression (similarity 0.81)
• White men project their repressed sexual desires onto the Negro as biological danger. (similarity 0.81)
• White-imposed dehumanization drives the black subject to seek whiteness (similarity 0.79)
• The woman of color’s love is directed at whiteness itself, not the man (similarity 0.79)
• The black man’s only perceived escape from insignificance leads into the white world. (similarity 0.79)
• Negrophobic women project onto Negroes the sexual powers their own lives lacked (similarity 0.79)
• A white woman’s alienation resulted from childhood fear of the Negro (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• A black woman’s longing to marry white reflects a vast internalized delusion #contradicts (0.30) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 159
• The Negro becomes the depositary of the white girl’s uninvested aggression #complicates (0.30) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 635
• Negrophobic women project onto Negroes the sexual powers their own lives lacked #expands (0.20)
• Black women’s professed love for white men reorders as love of whiteness itself #contradicts (0.20) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 160