Psychiatrist of Liberation
Frantz Fanon
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A psychiatrist from Martinique who analyzed the inner effects of racism and colonialism, and joined the Algerian struggle for independence.
Key work: The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
“O my body, make of me always a man who questions!”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
A glance can fix a person in someone else’s image.
Independence means little if a new elite takes the old place.
Colonial rule shapes the mind as well as the land.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Fixed by a GlanceThe Wretched of the Earth
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