White identification with the Negro springs from projected fear of retaliation

Evidence

Every intellectual gain requires a loss in sexual potential. The civilized white man retains an irrational longing for unusual eras of sexual license, of orgiastic scenes, of unpunished rapes, of unrepressed incest. In one way these fantasies respond to Freud’s life instinct. Projecting his own desires onto the Negro, the white man behaves “as if’ the Negro really had them. When it is a question of the Jew, the problem is clear: He is suspect because he wants to own the wealth or take over the positions of power. But the Negro is fixated at the genital; or at any rate he has been fixated there. Two realms: the intellectual and the sexual. An erection on Rodin’s Thinker is a shocking thought. One cannot decently “have a hard on” everywhere. The Negro symbolizes the biological danger; the Jew, the intellectual danger. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 605 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Negrophobia operates on the biological and instinctual level. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 601; White masochism arises from guilt over sanctioned sadistic aggression toward blacks — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 632; White men project their repressed sexual desires onto the Negro as biological danger. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 605 (+11 more)

Related

• White men project their repressed sexual desires onto the Negro as biological danger. (similarity 0.92)
• White men’s racial hatred of Negroes is a disguised sexual revenge (similarity 0.92)
• The fantasy of Negro sexuality exceeds any actual sexual experience with them (similarity 0.84)
• White masochism arises from guilt over sanctioned sadistic aggression toward blacks (similarity 0.84)
• The white woman’s rape fantasy displaces onto the Negro an aggression the father rejected (similarity 0.83)
• Negrophobic women project onto Negroes the sexual powers their own lives lacked (similarity 0.83)
• The white woman’s pursuit of Negro lovers sought self-dissolution she could not attain (similarity 0.82)
• Negrophobic women’s fear arises from imagination, not real danger (similarity 0.82)
• Negrophobia operates on the biological and instinctual level. (similarity 0.82)
• White-Black relations are conducted entirely on the genital level (similarity 0.80)
• Negroes assume the same projective function as Jews for white self-purification (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Negro prejudice functions as a defense against incestuous feelings. (similarity 0.79)
• A white woman’s alienation resulted from childhood fear of the Negro (similarity 0.79)
• The Uncle Remus stories encode simultaneous white love-seeking and hatred of blacks (similarity 0.79)
• Being objectified as a toy drives the Negro toward explosive acting-out (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• White men project their repressed sexual desires onto the Negro as biological danger. #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 605
• Projection makes the Negro the fixed symbol of base emotions in European therapy #expands (0.65)
• The white woman’s rape fantasy displaces onto the Negro an aggression the father rejected #exemplifies (0.60)
• The Negro becomes the depositary of the white girl’s uninvested aggression #exemplifies (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 635
• White masochism arises from guilt over sanctioned sadistic aggression toward blacks #complicates (0.55) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 632
• The fantasy of Negro sexuality exceeds any actual sexual experience with them #expands (0.55)
• Negrophobia operates on the biological and instinctual level. #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 601
• The white woman’s pursuit of Negro lovers sought self-dissolution she could not attain #exemplifies (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 616