DISCUSS HOW FANNON USES PSYCHOANALYSIS TO UNDERSTAND NATURE OF
RACISM. USE PSYCHOANALYTIC CONCEPTS TO ILLUSTRATE WHETHER YOU AGREE
Fannon uses combination of concepts
→ Marxism, psychoanalysis, existentialism
→ To generate critique of relations of power
→ Existing in racist and colonial environments
Uses Eurocentric notions: “oppressive”, “racist”, “colonial”
→ Assisting argument about one dominant social political group
Strategically uses psychological and psychoanalytic terms in analysis to a great
political effect
Rejects aggressive imposition of western culture, values and norms
Psychoanalysis projects European cultural values onto colonial context to hide
oppression
Fannon found evidence of victim-blaming
→ Colonisations attempts to self-justify forms of explanation
Rejects Hegel’s “slave-master dialectic”
→ Involves participation of both parties in struggle for recognition
Doesn’t completely reject Marxist ideas
→ Expresses concern to how it applies to colonial contexts
Assesses racism by defining opposing categories
→ “blackness” vs. “whiteness” and “African culture” vs. “European culture”
Main idea of his work: Eurocentric theories be re-evaluated and reformulated
→ To be sufficient in colonial contexts
Stresses how racism, colonial violence and exploitation replaced Eurocentric
theoretical analysis
First world contexts can’t properly address forms of power specific to colonial and
postcolonial situations
Danger of systems:
→ Risk homogenising terms that define colonial environment
Fanon applies subliminal double standards in
→ How black and white subjects are understood and evaluated
Manichean thinking considers how
→ Racial implementation rationalises notions of difference, superiority and
inferiority
Colonial division of space impacts constructed notions of psychological, cultural and
moral difference
Colonial world is divided into two compartments
Two components are opposed but not in service of a higher unity
→ Both zones obey rules of pure Aristotelian logic and follow principle of
reciprocal exclusivity
Fannon’s critical psychology described as
RACISM. USE PSYCHOANALYTIC CONCEPTS TO ILLUSTRATE WHETHER YOU AGREE
Fannon uses combination of concepts
→ Marxism, psychoanalysis, existentialism
→ To generate critique of relations of power
→ Existing in racist and colonial environments
Uses Eurocentric notions: “oppressive”, “racist”, “colonial”
→ Assisting argument about one dominant social political group
Strategically uses psychological and psychoanalytic terms in analysis to a great
political effect
Rejects aggressive imposition of western culture, values and norms
Psychoanalysis projects European cultural values onto colonial context to hide
oppression
Fannon found evidence of victim-blaming
→ Colonisations attempts to self-justify forms of explanation
Rejects Hegel’s “slave-master dialectic”
→ Involves participation of both parties in struggle for recognition
Doesn’t completely reject Marxist ideas
→ Expresses concern to how it applies to colonial contexts
Assesses racism by defining opposing categories
→ “blackness” vs. “whiteness” and “African culture” vs. “European culture”
Main idea of his work: Eurocentric theories be re-evaluated and reformulated
→ To be sufficient in colonial contexts
Stresses how racism, colonial violence and exploitation replaced Eurocentric
theoretical analysis
First world contexts can’t properly address forms of power specific to colonial and
postcolonial situations
Danger of systems:
→ Risk homogenising terms that define colonial environment
Fanon applies subliminal double standards in
→ How black and white subjects are understood and evaluated
Manichean thinking considers how
→ Racial implementation rationalises notions of difference, superiority and
inferiority
Colonial division of space impacts constructed notions of psychological, cultural and
moral difference
Colonial world is divided into two compartments
Two components are opposed but not in service of a higher unity
→ Both zones obey rules of pure Aristotelian logic and follow principle of
reciprocal exclusivity
Fannon’s critical psychology described as
