42 | Going Beyond the Pleasure Principle with Freud
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Scaling Out of Psychoanalytic Therapy
Fenon was a practitioner of psychoanalytic therapy. He looked at the effects of colonialism, and basically psychic mutilation that is wrought by something like colonialism. But i don't think you can scale up the therapeutic part of it as how i would put it right. In order to understand neuroses in a given society, you have to understand scial, economic, political conditions that are partly responsible for generating those neuroses. I totally agree with Ikei see, when i say explanatory like salients, i see that.
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