![]() ![]() He pointed to the history of the United States as an example of a failed revolution because the colonies had retained the cultural and political traditions of the British. Fanon argued that a nation had to achieve its own cultural, social and political maturity before achieving national liberation. He advocated a “collective catharsis” driven by violence directed at European colonizers and their collaborators. Fanon argued that colonized people could only be freed from their degradation by purging all aspects of European culture from their societies. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), the French novelist, playwright and existentialist philosopher, wrote the preface to the book. In 1961 Fanon’s book, The Wretched of the Earth, was published. In 1954 he joined the Algerian liberation movement and edited the revolutionary newspaper El Moudjahid. He received his medical and psychiatric education at the University of Lyon and was the head of the psychiatry department at the Blida-Joinville Hospital in French-occupied Algeria. įranz Fanon (1925-1962) was a well-known psychiatrist and philosopher. ![]()
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