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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: Colonial War, Mental Illness, and Psychoanalysis
Red Menace
The Story of the Woman Who Hungovered Me
Fanon was able to reconstruct his story and figure out to some degree why these symptoms were appearing so here's that story in full quote I left the town where I had been a student to join the underground resistance movement after several months I learned that my mother had been killed at Point Blank Range by a French soldier. After several weeks of treatment this man's nightmare symptoms had almost disappeared they started going away but his personality was still deeply deeply fractured Fonan says that as soon as the man thinks of his mother the image of the disemboweled woman he killed looms up in her place in psychoanalytic terms this is referred to as displacement where the mind substitutes a new object
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