Frantz fanon biographie
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The Life/Work of Frantz Fanon
French activist and International Frantz Fanon Foundation president Mireille Fanon-Mendès- France discusses the legacies and continued relevance of Frantz Fanon’s work
Visual Cultures Public Programme Spring 2020
Mireille Fanon-Mendès-France - Institutional Psychotherapy and the life/work of Frantz Fanon
Respondent: Ramon Amaro
Frantz Fanon (1925 – 1961) was a psychiatrist, writer, and anti-colonial militant. His contribution to the history of ideas, especially concerning issues of decolonialisation, cannot be overstated. His work continues to influence generations of militant thought and practice.
He is cited as a foundational figure from the Black Panther Party to the field of postcolonial theory and everywhere in between. Fanon was first and foremost a psychiatrist who was deeply committed to social therapy and the project of Institutional Analysis.
It was his diagnosis of colonialism and racism as creating specific psychosocial pathologies that led him to conclude the ‘cure’ for this form of mental illness could only be achieved by fun
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Robyn Marasco, CUNY
Frantz Fanon was survived by two children when he died at age 36, a daughter named Mireille and a son named Oliver. Mireille had no real relationship with her father in his lifetime. Fanon had left her mother soon after she became pregnant. He married another French woman, Josie Dublé, who birthed his only son, and together the Fanons adopted a homeland in Algeria. Oliver was a young child when he lost his father to leukemia, part of a whole generation whose parents were martyred by the Algerian Revolution. I highlight Fanon’s relationships with women and his children because they raise an issue that I see as also central to his thought: abandonment.
Those who tell the story of Fanon’s “impossible life,” as Albert Memmi famously put it, from David Macey to Adam Shatz, have left this essential piece of it largely undiscussed.[1] But we can see it everywhere, if we look. In his clandestine escape from Martinique to join the French resistance against the Nazis. In his break with the negritude movement that shaped him. In his decision to leave France f
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Frantz Fanon
French West Indian psychiatrist and philosopher (1925–1961)
"Fanon" redirects here. For other uses, see Fanon (disambiguation).
Frantz Fanon | |
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| Born | Frantz Omar Fanon 20 July 1925 (1925-07-20) Fort-de-France, Martinique, France |
| Died | 6 December 1961(1961-12-06) (aged 36) Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Lyon |
| Notable work | Black Skin, White Masks (1952) The Wretched of the Earth (1961) |
| Spouse | Josie Fanon |
| Region | Africana philosophy |
| School | Marxism Black existentialism Critical theory Existential phenomenology |
Main interests | Decolonization, postcolonialism, revolution, psychopathology of colonization, racism, psychoanalysis |
Notable ideas | Double consciousness, colonial alienation, To become black, Sociogeny |
Frantz Omar Fanon (,[2];[3]French:[fʁɑ̃tsfanɔ̃]; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a French Afro-Caribbean[4][5][6]psychiatrist, political philosopher, and Marxist from the French colony of Martinique (today a F
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