Leftist Reading: The Wretched of the Earth Part 20

Leftist Reading

Episode 75:

Content Warnings this episode for:
Mental health, trauma, eugenics.

This week we’re continuing with The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
The full book is available online here:
https://monoskop.org/images/6/6b/Fanon_Frantz_The_Wretched_of_the_Earth_1963.pdf

[Part 1-5]
Concerning Violence

[Part 6]
Violence in the International Context

[Part 7 - 9]
Spontaneity: Its Strength and Weakness

[Part 10 - 14]
The Pitfalls of National Consciousness

[Part 15-17]
On National Culture
-Poem
-Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom

[Part 18]
Colonial War and Mental Disorders
Series A
[Part 19]
Series B
Series C

[Part 20 - This week]
Series D - First Reading - 00:24

[Part 21]
Series D - Second Reading
Conclusion

Footnotes:

1) 01:21
This nomenclature which expresses an idealist conception is less and less frequently used. In fact the terminology "cortico-visceral" inherited from Soviet research work—especially that of Pavlov—has at least the advantage that it puts the brain back in its place, that is to say it considers the brain as the matrix where, precisely, the psychism is elaborated.

2) 03:25
The higher a person is on the neurological plane, the less he is extra-pyramidal. As we see, everything tallies.

3) 07:01
It is hardly necessary to add that there is no question here of hysterical contraction.

4) 15:26
In fact we know that Islam forbids its followers to eat meat unless they are sure that the animal has been drained of its blood. This is why the animals' throats are cut.

5) 21:41
Professor A. Porot, Medico-psychological Annals.

6) 22:37
In the mouth of the doyen of the judges of a court in Algeria, this aggressivity on the part of the Algerian is expressed by his love of the "fantastic." "We are wrong," he stated in 1955, "in believing this whole revolt to be political. From time to time that love of a scrimmage that they have has to come out!" For the ethnologist, the establishment of a series of tests and projective games which would have canalized the global aggressive instincts of the native would have had in 1955-56 the power to bring the revolution in Aurès to an end.

7) 25:56
A. Carothers, "Normal and Pathological Psychology of the African," Ethno-psychiatric Studies ( Ed. Masson).

8) 26:20
Op. cit., p. 176.

9) 27:34
Op. cit., p. 178.