Octave Mannoni is a French psychoanalyst. The entire fourth chapter of Black Skin, White Masks is dedicated to Fanon’s critique of Mannoni’s book, The Psychology of Colonization (1956). Fanon argues that Mannoni accurately observes certain aspects of the psychological dynamic produced by colonialism, but that his argument is also filled with falsehoods and ultimately perpetuates colonial ideology.
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Chapter 4
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I did not want to be objective. Besides, that would have been dishonest: I found it impossible to be objective.
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Chapter 4: The So-Called Dependency Complex of the Colonized
...and humiliation of others. Fanon explains that this chapter will cover the French psychoanalyst Octave Mannoni’s book The Psychology of Colonization. Fanon admits that Mannoni’s work is “intellectually honest” and that...
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One problem is that Mannoni argues that the psychological complexes that exist in colonized people have existed since childhood. Fanon...
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...with certain groups of people, but that the entire structure of the country is racist. Mannoni argues that colonial racism is different from other forms of racism, but Fanon rejects this,...
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In contrast to Césaire, Mannoni claims that “European civilization and its best representatives are not responsible for colonial racism.” Fanon...
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...Sartre, who argues that “it is the anti-Semite who makes the Jew.” Fanon argues that Mannoni only leaves two options for colonized people: develop an inferiority complex, or become dependent on...
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Mannoni claims that when white people arrived in Madagascar, Malagasy people “discovered” they were human, then...
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Mannoni doesn’t understand this because he insists that the dependency complex is a fundamental part of...
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In The Psychology of Colonization, Mannoni analyzes seven dreams that he claims are indications of am irrational fear of black people....
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Mannoni describes “the Prospero complex,” which describes the colonizer’s feelings of paternalistic superiority and also his...
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