ETHNONEUROSIS: DELINEATING FANON'S 'IDEA OF NEGROPHOBIA' WITH REFERENCE TO TONI MORRISON'S 'THE BLUEST EYE' (Pages 01-14) by in THE ENGLISH RESEARCH EXPRESS / ISSN:2321-1164 (Online); 2347-2642 (Print)

The existence of authentic human subject is possible only when his social and psychic beings corroborate in symphony. Unfortunately in colonial conditions and even beyond there existed a wide gap between the two, leading to alienated image not in terms of self and the other but the other-ness of the self. The boomerang effect of racism arguably leads to a permanent condition of nausea in blacks. This condition of negrophobia which actualizes of and in turn leads to the alienation of social and psychic being produces ‘lackeys’ which are dangerous for healthy human evolution. The focus is to argue for ‘psyche’ to be the locus of one’s existence which has been the site of contestation during colonial times. To maintain a fair deal of flow the paper is divided into five sections;The first section introduces the subject of neurosis in the light of Fanon’s ideas in Black skin, White mask. The second section explores the conditions and reasons which actualizes ethnoneurosis in blacks. Third section addresses Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye’ as a fictional representative of the real conditions of nausea. Fourth section proposes a way out of the ephemeral hell of racism echoing Fanon’s idea of universalism. Fifth and the last section appropriates the relevance of these concepts and philosophies for our immediate living conditions. For analyzing the relation between blacks and whites the tools of psychoanalysis have been used which suggest for the systematic internalization of inferiority in the psyche as the pre-condition for ethnoneurosis. Keywords: Ethnoneurosis, Negritude, Sociogeny, Manichean delirium, double-consciousness, orientalism, affective disorder, Thingification, Epidermalization, definite mutation, affective erethism, lactification, assimilation, Negrophobia.