The white woman’s rape fantasy displaces onto the Negro an aggression the father rejected

Evidence

First the little girl sees a sibling rival beaten by the father, a libidinal aggressive. At this stage (between the ages of five and nine), the father, who is now the pole of her libido, refuses in a way to take up the aggression that the little girl’s unconscious demands of him. At this point, lacking support, this free-floating aggression requires an investment. Since the girl is at the age in which the child begins to enter the folklore and the culture along roads that we know, the Negro becomes the predestined depositary of this aggression. If we go farther into the labyrinth, we discover that when a woman lives the fantasy of rape by a Negro, it is in some way the fulfillment of a private dream, of an inner wish. Accomplishing the phenomenon of turning against self, it is the woman who rapes herself. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 635 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

When one reads this passage a dozen times and lets oneself go–that is, when one abandons oneself to the movement of its images–one is no longer aware of the Negro but only of a penis; the Negro is eclipsed. He is turned into a penis. He is a penis. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 616 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• 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 Negro becomes the depositary of the white girl’s uninvested aggression — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 635 (+3 more)

Related

• The Negro becomes the depositary of the white girl’s uninvested aggression (similarity 0.93)
• The white woman’s pursuit of Negro lovers sought self-dissolution she could not attain (similarity 0.89)
• The fantasy of Negro sexuality exceeds any actual sexual experience with them (similarity 0.83)
• White identification with the Negro springs from projected fear of retaliation (similarity 0.83)
• Literary descriptions reduce the Negro to a penis in white fantasy (similarity 0.82)
• White men project their repressed sexual desires onto the Negro as biological danger. (similarity 0.81)
• White men’s racial hatred of Negroes is a disguised sexual revenge (similarity 0.80)
• A white woman’s alienation resulted from childhood fear of the Negro (similarity 0.80)
• Negrophobic women’s fear arises from imagination, not real danger (similarity 0.80)
• Negrophobic women project onto Negroes the sexual powers their own lives lacked (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The Negro becomes the depositary of the white girl’s uninvested aggression #corroborates (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 635
• The white woman’s pursuit of Negro lovers sought self-dissolution she could not attain #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 616
• Literary descriptions reduce the Negro to a penis in white fantasy #expands (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 616
• Negrophobic women’s fear arises from imagination, not real danger #responds-to (0.50)