Frantz Fanon’s Psycho-Politics From Psychiatry to Revolution

Fırat Mollaer
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This article examines the relationship between psychiatry and politics in the thought of Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The article aims to demonstrate that Fanon developed a unique approach to psycho-politics that dialectically engages psychiatry and politics from his earliest works. Fanon’s psycho-politics can be traced from his work in the early 1950s, namely his doctoral dissertation and Black Skin, White Masks (1952). From his doctoral dissertation to Black Skin, White Masks, Fanon tries to explain colonialism as a psychiatrist. This search manifests itself again in Fanon’s best-known work, The Wretched of the Earth (1961). Although The Wretched of the Earth is known as the influential work of a political militant, it is the book of a scientist-thinker who analyzes colonialism from a psychiatric perspective. However, the connection between Fanon’s psychiatric thought and practice and his political writings has not been sufficiently revealed. Fanon has been thought of as a ‟Third World militant.” But there is a dialectical relationship between Fanon’s theory and practice of psychiatry and his political thought. Understanding Fanon’s thought can only be possible by analyzing its psycho-political structure. The aim of this article is to examine the development of Fanon’s political thought through his earliest psychiatric writings and clinical practice, to link psychiatric theory and practice to his political theory, and thus to outline Fanon’s psycho-politics.
弗朗茨·法农的《从精神病学到革命的心理政治
本文考察了二十世纪最有影响力的思想家之一弗朗茨·法农(1925-1961)思想中精神病学与政治之间的关系。本文旨在证明法农从他早期的作品中发展出一种独特的心理政治方法,将精神病学和政治辩证地结合起来。法农的心理政治可以追溯到他在20世纪50年代早期的作品,即他的博士论文和《黑皮肤,白面具》(1952)。从他的博士论文到《黑皮肤,白面具》,法农试图以精神科医生的身份解释殖民主义。这种探索在法农最著名的作品《悲惨的地球》(1961)中再次体现出来。虽然《悲惨的地球》被认为是一位政治激进分子的有影响力的作品,但它是一位从精神病学角度分析殖民主义的科学家思想家的书。然而,法农的精神病学思想和实践与他的政治著作之间的联系并没有得到充分的揭示。法农一直被认为是“第三世界的激进分子”。但法农的精神病学理论与实践与其政治思想之间存在着辩证关系。理解法农的思想只有通过分析其心理政治结构才有可能。本文的目的是通过法农早期的精神病学著作和临床实践来考察其政治思想的发展,将精神病学理论和实践与他的政治理论联系起来,从而概述法农的心理政治。
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