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Manichean psychology and violence
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MANICHEAN PSYCHOLOGY AND VIOLENCE Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique in the year 1925. He started studying medicine and later qualified as a psychiatrist. Born in a French colony and later working in Algeria (also a French colony), he joined the fight for Algeria's liberation. His books have exerted a fundamental influence on the study of oppression and post-colonialism. The following will provide a brief description of the master-slave paradigms of Georg Hegel and Fanon. The second section will discuss Manichean psychology and how I perceive its effect on the concept of alienation and violence. Master and slave paradigms In summary, Hegel's master-slave concept argues that man will only become conscious of himself through recognition by another. Hegel spoke about how man's self-consciousness originates in desire, a desire for recognition. Bulhan (1985, p. 103) says that "[recognition] is possible only in the presence and confrontation of the other. Thus recognition by the other...
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