ABSTRACT
Many psychological phenomena, according to Fanon, can be traced to anti-black racism,
white supremacy, and the profound fictions that characterize them, but not in the abstract.
This is true for black people, whose existence and humanity are produced as structurally imposs-
ible (Agathangelou, 2010, 2011; Wilderson, 2011) and it is true for white people, many of whom
suffer from negrophobia and negrophilia-an ironic psychosexual phenomenon that cannot,
Fanon argues, be understood without appealing to sociogenesis: ‘For the majority of white
men . . . .the Negro represents the sexual instinct (in its raw state). The Negro is the incarnation
of a genital potency beyond all moralities and prohibitions . . . We have shown that reality
destroys all these beliefs’ (Fanon, 1967, p. 177).
