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17: Fanon the Clinician feat. Nica Siegel

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Importance of Persistence in Psychoanalytic Ethnography

I was looking through some of the phenomenal material just to buttress this with some quotes. Fanon is really apex in terms of his ability to do this, for you read that and they don't quite make sense or does this make sense as a thing not? And then there's a kicker line about at the end of the graph or else. The line that came across here was like, rather than sort of importing other structures, the prerequisite of doing something other than applying European modes is must involve a persistent concrete and genuine investigation of the native society. Because now this is also happening within context of really radical social stratification.

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