ABSTRACT

Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology is the first edited collection dedicated to exploring the explicitly phenomenological foundations underlying Frantz Fanon’s most important insights.

Featuring contributions from many of the world’s leading scholars on Fanon, this volume foregrounds a series of crucial phenomenological topics – inclusive of the domains of experience, structure, embodiment, and temporality – pertaining to the analysis and interrogation of racism and anti-Blackness. Chapters highlight and expand Fanon’s ongoing importance to the discipline of psychology while opening compelling new perspectives on psychopathology, decolonial praxis, racialized time, whiteness, Black subjectivity, the "racial ontologizing of the body," systematic structures of racism and resulting forms of trauma, Black Consciousness, and Africana phenomenology. 

In an era characterized by resurgent forms of anti-Blackness and racism, this book is essential reading for students, scholars, and activists who remain inspired by Fanon’s legacy. 

chapter |20 pages

Of Bodies That Matter

Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology

part I|50 pages

Situating Fanon's Phenomenology

chapter Chapter 1|25 pages

Decolonizing Madness

The Psychiatric Writings of Frantz Fanon 1

chapter Chapter 2|17 pages

My Body, This Skin, This Fire

chapter Chapter 3|6 pages

Frantz Fanon's Phenomenology of Black Mind

Sources, Critique, Dialectic

part II|54 pages

Fanon and the Psychological

chapter Chapter 4|16 pages

Psychology, the Psychological, and Critical Praxis

A Phenomenologist Reads Frantz Fanon

chapter Chapter 5|11 pages

Frantz Fanon and the Decolonial Turn in Psychology

From Modern/Colonial Methods to the Decolonial Attitude

chapter Chapter 6|10 pages

Frantz Fanon and Psychopathology

The Progressive Infrastructure of Black Skin, White Masks

chapter Chapter 7|15 pages

Racial Ontologizing Through the Body

part III|50 pages

Fanon's Uses of Phenomenology

chapter Chapter 8|12 pages

Corporeal Schemas and Body Images

Fanon, Merleau-Ponty, and the Lived Experience of Race 1

chapter Chapter 9|12 pages

The Facticity of Blackness

A Non-Conceptual Approach to the Study of Race and Racism in Fanon's and Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology

chapter Chapter 10|11 pages

“The Place Where Life Hides Away”

Merleau-Ponty, Fanon, and the Location of Bodily Being

part IV|44 pages

Temporality and Racism

chapter Chapter 12|17 pages

Too Late

Fanon, the Dismembered Past, and a Phenomenology of Racialized Time 1

chapter Chapter 13|15 pages

From “Get Over It” to “Tear It Down”

Racialized Temporalities, “White Time,” and Temporal Contestations 1

chapter Chapter 14|10 pages

To Dwell for the Postcolonial

part V|54 pages

Phenomenology after Fanon

chapter Chapter 16|18 pages

A Phenomenology of Whiteness 1

chapter Chapter 17|26 pages

Africana Phenomenology

Its Philosophical Implications