ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the narration of Therapeutic child within Frantz Fanon's corpus. It does so through a close reading of one of Fanon's case histories in The Wretched of the Earth, in the long chapter cataloguing the brutalising psychological impacts of colonial war. Foucaultian analyses as resources for reading Fanon's case histories in the service of reinterpreting models of the relations between psycho education and political change. These inform a model of the psychosocial that is political, in the sense of conceptualising the sociohistorical constituents and determinants of the domain of the psyche. Fanon's anti-colonial project was clearly informed by Marxist perspectives. Fanon's therapeutic as well as political analysis highlights first, how resistance and transformation are simultaneously intrapersonal, interpersonal, and socio-political, but also that, second, attending to their shifting unstable and relational features may renew and reinvigorate perspectives informing psychological and pedagogical activisms.
