Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology

Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology is the first edited collection dedicated to exploring the explicitly phenomenological foundations underlying Frantz Fanon’s most important insights. Featuring contributions from many of the world’s leading scholars on Fanon, this volume foregrounds a series of crucial phenomenological topics – inclusive of the domains of experience, structure, embodiment, and temporality – pertaining to the analysis and interrogation of racism and anti-Blackness. Chapters highlight and expand Fanon’s ongoing importance to the discipline of psychology while opening compelling new perspectives on psychopathology, decolonial praxis, racialized time, whiteness, Black subjectivity, the "racial ontologizing of the body," systematic structures of racism and resulting forms of trauma, Black Consciousness, and Africana phenomenology. In an era characterized by resurgent forms of anti-Blackness and racism, this book is essential reading for students, scholars, and activists who remain inspired by Fanon’s legacy.

List of Contributors Foreword: Hospitality and Psychiatry: Just a Gut Feeling Acknowledgments Of Bodies That Matter: Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology Leswin Laubscher, Derek Hook,and Miraj U. Desai Part I: Situating Fanon’s Phenomenology 1. Decolonizing Madness: The Psychiatric Writings of Frantz Fanon Nigel C. Gibson 2. My Body, This Skin, This Fire Jean Khalfa 3. Frantz Fanon’s Phenomenology of Black Mind: Sources, Critique, Dialectic Lou Turner Part II: Fanon and the Psychological 4. Psychology, the Psychological, and Critical Praxis: A Phenomenologist Reads Frantz Fanon Miraj U. Desai 5. Frantz Fanon and the Decolonial Turn in Psychology: From Modern/Colonial Methods to the Decolonial Attitude Nelson Maldonado-Torres 6. Frantz Fanon and Psychopathology: The Progressive Infrastructure of Black Skin, White Masks Robert Bernasconi 7. Racial Ontologizing Through the Body Derek Hook Part III: Fanon’s Uses of Phenomenology 8. Corporeal Schemas and Body Images: Fanon, Merleau-Ponty, and the Lived Experience of Race Athena V. Colman 9. The Facticity of Blackness: A Non-Conceptual Approach to the Study of Race and Racism in Fanon’s and Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology Dilan Mahendran 10. "The Place Where Life Hides Away": Merleau-Ponty, Fanon, and the Location of Bodily Being Gayle Salamon 11. Fanon, Merleau-Ponty, and the Difference of Phenomenology Jeremy Weate Part IV: Temporality and Racism 12. Too Late: Fanon, the Dismembered Past, and a Phenomenology of Racialized Time Alia Al-Saji 13. From "Get Over it" to "Tear it Down": Racialized Temporalities, "White Time," and Temporal Contestations Helen Ngo Chapter 14: To Dwell for the Postcolonial Grant Farred Part V: PHENOMENOLOGY AFTER FANON 15. A Phenomenology of Biko’s Black Consciousness Lewis R. Gordon 16. A Phenomenology of Whiteness Sara Ahmed 17. Africana Phenomenology: Its Philosophical Implications Paget Henry

Leswin Laubscher, PhD, is chair of the department of psychology at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, and extraordinary professor in the department of psychology at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He is the author of the textbook, An Introduction to Psychology as a Human Science. Derek Hook, PhD, is associate professor of psychology at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh,and an extraordinary professor of psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is the author of Six Moments in Lacan. Miraj U. Desai, PhD, author of Travel and Movement in Clinical Psychology: The World Outside the Clinic, is on the faculty of the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health.