He was an outstanding and dedicated physician as well as a philosopher and political activist.
Yet the book also gives scintillating clinical proof that Fanon made many other significant con tributions to his field. How life events and experiences led to the formula tion of this psychology is the chief emphasis of the author. Readers of Fanon will be familiar with the psychology of oppression which he presented so forcefully. Fanon is often regarded as a Marxist thinker because, like Karl Marx, he saw revolution by the oppressed as a natural consequence of capitalist domination. It demonstrates that all these scholarly areas must be handled with erudition in order to build a baseline for understanding both Fanon and the psychology of oppression. Frantz Fanons political thought developed directly out of this study of the psychology of colonialism and racism, the effect of colonialism on the colonised. Bulhan's writing is lucid, creative, and persuasive. Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Oppression, Author(s)-Hussein Abdilahi Bulhan, Publisher-Springer, ISBN-9780306484384, Pages-300, Binding-Paperback. Trained in French thought but uses it to challenge human experiences. And lastly there is a broad and systematic integration of many areas of scholarship including philosophy, anthropology, political science, history, so ciology, mythology, public health, and economics. Who is Frantz Fanon Significant figure in black consciousness. Second is a theory of psychology, by the author, which will aug ment and prove useful to theorists and practitioners who focus on Third World people. First is the review and assessment of Fanon's life. I am black I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos - and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. It presents an absorbing and careful ac count of several impressive themes.
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