Alienation and freedom /

Alienation and Freedom collects together previously unpublished works comprising around half of his entire output - which were previously inaccessible or thought to be lost. This book introduces audiences to a new Fanon, a more personal Fanon and one whose literary and psychiatric works, in particul...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961 (Author)
Other Authors: Khalfa, Jean (Editor), Young, Robert, 1950- (Editor), Corcoran, Steve (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translation of: Écrits sur l'aliénation et la liberté (Paris : La Découverte, ©2015).
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Theatre. Fanon, revolutionary playwright
  • The drowning eye
  • Parallel hands
  • Part II. Psychiatric writings. Fanon, revolutionary playwright
  • Mental alterations, character modifications, psychic disorders and intellectual deficit in spinocerebellar heredodegeneration: a case of Friedrich's ataxia with delusions of possession
  • Letter to Maurice Despinoy
  • Trait d'union
  • On some cases treated with the Bini method
  • Indications of electroconvulsive therapy within institutional therapies
  • On an attempt to rehabilitate a patient suffering from morpheic epilepsy and serious character disorders
  • Note on sleep therapy techniques using conditioning and electroencephalographic monitoring
  • Our journal
  • Social therapy in a ward of Muslim men: methodological difficulties
  • Daily life of the douars
  • Introduction to sexuality disorders among North Africans
  • Current aspects of mental care in Algeria
  • Ethnopsychiatric considerations
  • Conducts of confession in North Africa
  • Maghrebi Muslims and their attitude to madness
  • TAT in Muslim women: sociology of perception and imagination
  • Letter to the resident minister
  • The phenomenon of agitation in the psychiatric milieu: general considerations, psychopathological meaning
  • Biological study of the action of lithium citrate on bouts of mania
  • On a case of torsion spasm
  • First tests using injectable meprobamate for hypochondriac states
  • Day hospitalizations in psychiatry: value and limits
  • Day hospitalizations in psychiatry: value and limits part two: doctrinal considerations
  • The meeting between society and psychiatry
  • Part III. Political writings. The demoralized Foreign Legion
  • Algeria's independence: the only possible outcome
  • Algeria and the French crisis
  • A democratic revolution
  • Once again: the reason for the precondition
  • Algerian revolutionary consciousness
  • In the Caribbean, birth of a nation?
  • The strategy of an army with its back to the wall
  • The survivors of no man's land
  • Testament of a 'man of the left'
  • Ultracolonialism's rationale
  • The western world and the fascist experience in France
  • Gaullist illusions
  • The calvary of a people
  • The rising anti-imperialist movement and the slow-wits of pacification
  • African countries and their solidary combat
  • Richard Wright's White man, listen!
  • At Conakry, he declares: 'global peace goes via national independence'
  • Africa accuses the west
  • Why we use violence
  • The stooges of imperialism
  • Letter to Ali Shariati
  • Part IV. Publishing Fanon (France and Italy, 1959-1971). Correspondence between François Maspero and Frantz Fanon
  • The Italian Fanon: unearthing a hidden editorial history
  • Part V. Frantz Fanon's library and life. Frantz Fanon's library
  • Key dates in Fanon's chronology.