Thesis ID: CBB001562826

Frantz Fanon's Clinical Studies (1954--1960) (2011)

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Allen, Mazi A. (Author)


State University of New York at Binghamton
Lugones, Maria


Publication Date: 2011
Edition Details: Advisor: Lugones, Maria
Physical Details: 208 pp.
Language: English

Between 1954 and 1960, Frantz Fanon conducted numerous clinical studies on the social role of psychiatry (in his capacity as director of psychiatric wards in French Algeria and later post-independence Tunisia.) Later published as articles, conference papers and lectures, these studies--eight of which are translated in this dissertation for the very first time--ask us to consider the possibility of constituting community from a non-antagonistic basis. Whereas previous political theory has presupposed antagonism towards the "other"--offering the choice of either rendering the "other" transparent (in terms of fitting them into one's understanding of the world) or else conflict--Fanon asks us to consider whether we cannot move beyond such self-centered understanding of the world and actually know the "other" as such. In reading these studies in conjunction with Fanon's better-known work, I will trace the development of this alternative vision of community from its origins in Black Skin, White Masks and will argue that Fanon's attempt to reconceive of community from a non-antagonistic basis constitutes a central them in his thought--linking both his professional and political commitments

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