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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: Colonial War, Mental Illness, and Psychoanalysis

Red Menace

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Psychoanalysis Can Make a Good Intervention in Politics

Benon is looking at how these macro political structures shape certain affects and certain psychological responses within various populations. While psychoanalysis can give us really interesting analytical methods it can also sort of import ideas about what a normal healthy human individual is, he says. Benon: "Psycho analytic categories of different illnesses and disease have been used to pathologize people who dissent from a society"

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