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The Self Framework: The Civilizing…
The Self
Framework: The Civilizing Wound
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks
Dehumanization: goal is to set man free from race
"In the absolute, the black is no more to be loved than the Czech, What is to be done is set man free"
The structurally assigned enemy: Black person is pre-assigned as "enemy" before any encounter
"The Negro of the Antilles will be proportionately whiter in direct ration to his mastery of French "
Racial Epidermal Schema - skin becomes the mark of "enemy"
"I was responsible at the same time for my body, my race, and my ancestors"
Refusal- the self creates itself, refusing the assigned role of enemy
"I am not a prisoner of History, the real leap consists of introducing invention into life"
Sigmund Frued: Civilization and Its Discontents
The repression bargain- civilization demands we repress Eros
"Civilized man has exchanged a portion of his happiness for a portion of security"
The impossible commandment, love your enemy as yourself- why?
"It is precisely because our neighbor is not worthy of love and is on the contrary your enemy, that you should love him as yourself" - This reveals that the civilization demands emotional labor, love mere a social obligation.
" The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt"
Douglas: Purity and Danger
Dirt as a form of classification: the"unworthy" is constructed, not born
"Dirt is matter out of place where there is dirt there is system"
The "unowrthy" as pollution Freuds "unworthy neighbor"= Douglas "matter out of place"
"The difference between us is not that our behavior is grounded on science and theirs on symbolism. Our behavior also carries symbolic meaning"
Marginal person= danger Ambiguous roles attract fear and taboo
"Where the social system requires dangerously ambiguous roles, those person are credited with danger"
body as social symbol: bodily boundaries related to social boundaries
"The body is a model which can stand for any bounded system"