{"id":398,"date":"2016-01-11T21:30:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T21:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/?p=398"},"modified":"2016-01-11T21:30:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T21:30:24","slug":"black-skin-white-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/black-skin-white-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Skin, White Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-401\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2016\/01\/Fanon.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Frantz Fanon\" width=\"200\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A full draft of chapter 8 is now available to download.<\/p>\n<p>It argues that Fanon&#8217;s first book, <em>Black Skin, White Masks<\/em>, is a single coherent argument for a form of existentialism\u00a0that agrees with Beauvoir&#8217;s in\u00a0<em>The Second Sex<\/em> and Sartre&#8217;s in\u00a0<em>Saint Genet<\/em> that personal characteristics are formed through the sedimentation of projects.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Beauvoir and Sartre, however, Fanon is a psychiatrist. His primary interest is in diagnosing and treating distress. He develops his existentialism as a contribution to\u00a0the methods and concepts\u00a0of psychiatric practise.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0book also develops an existentialist literary style, manifesting his philosophy\u00a0in the range\u00a0of works analysed in developing the\u00a0theory and in the textual form of the\u00a0argument itself.<\/p>\n<p>Please do let me know what you think of the chapter, either by posting in the Comments thread to this news item or sending me\u00a0<a style=\"color: #9f9f9f\" title=\"send me an email\" href=\"mailto:jonathan.webber@me.com?Subject=Psychoanalysis%20and%20the%20Existentialist%20Mind\">an email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Draft chapters are available from\u00a0<a style=\"color: #9f9f9f\" title=\"link to the Book page\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/?page_id=2\">the Book page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A full draft of chapter 8 is now available to download. It argues that Fanon's first book, Black Skin, White Masks, is a single coherent argument for a form of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":318,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapters"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/rethinkingexistentialism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}