INTS 407 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Inferiority Complex, Eurocentrism, Political Philosophy
26 Aug 2016
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3 themes in fanon"s writing: critique of ethnopsychiatry and of the eurocentrism of psychoanalysis. Ethnopsychiatry etc is now debunked: dialogue with negritude. Still relevant today: development of a political philosophy for decolonization which starts by recognizing the psychological harm produced by colonialism. What is called the black soul is a construction by white folk . Negritude concepts of the negro spirit are a european fantasy. Assumption of a natural solidarity of black people is a political error. Black intellectuals should adapt to european culture and help change the lives of ordinary black people. Negritude could help black intellectuals to distance themselves from metropolitan (european) culture. Blacks and whites are caught in a cycle in which whites consider themselves superior and blacks want to prove their value to whites. The inferiority complex can be ascribed to a double process: economic, internalization or rather epidermalization of this inferiority. Blacks in europe are identified as other .
