The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: Colonial War, Mental Illness, and Psychoanalysis
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French Torture in Algeria
Feninan covers many forms of torture like torture by electricity forced in mobility brutal beatings waterboarding etc and then charts out the specific psychological effects of that specific form of torture. The one i will focus on is the attempt by the french colonialists to brainwash algerians with two different tactics they used for regular people and intellectuals. For non-intellectuals the brainwashing was focused on brutalizing the body in order to shape the mind as well as making them chant slogans such as down with the fln or i am french long live france obedience backed up by threat of evermore beatings but for the intellectuals things are different they were made to give formal presentations
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