Psychanalysis Quotes

“In this becalmed zone the sea has a smooth surface, the palm-tree stirs gently in the breeze, the waves lap against the pebbles and raw materials are ceaselessly transported, justifying the presence of the settler; and all the while the native, bent double, near dead than alive, exists interminably in an unchanging dream. The settler makes history; his life is an epoch, an Odyssey... Over against him torpid creatures, wasted by fever, obsessed by ancestral customs, form an almost inorganic background for the innovating dynamism of colonial mercantilism.”
― Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

“Ou bien prendre son essor et jouer un rôle déterminant dans la vie du monde, ou bien faire retraite et cultiver sa personnalité dans la quiétude ; la voie du héros ou celle du saint caché.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, Ame et archétypes