Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology

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.

Introduction: Of Bodies That Matter: Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology; Part I: Situating Fanon’s Phenomenology; 1. Decolonizing Madness: The Psychiatric Writings of Frantz Fanon; 2. My Body, This Skin, This Fire; 3. Frantz Fanon’s Phenomenology of Black Mind: Sources, Critique, Dialectic; Part II: Fanon and the Psychological; 4. Psychology, the Psychological, and Critical Praxis: A Phenomenologist Reads Fanon; 5. Frantz Fanon and the Decolonial Turn in Psychology: From Modern/Colonial Methods to the Decolonial Attitude; 6. Frantz Fanon and Psychopathology: The Progressive Infrastructure of Black Skin, White Masks; 7. Racial Ontologizing Through the Body; Part III: Fanon’s Uses of Phenomenology; 8. Corporeal Schemas and Body Images: Fanon, Merleau-Ponty, and the Lived Experience of Race; 9. The Facticity of Blackness: A Non-Conceptual Approach to the Study of Race and Racism in Fanon’s and Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology; 10. "The Place Where Life Hides Away": Merleau-Ponty, Fanon, and the Location of Bodily Being; 11. Fanon, Merleau-Ponty, and the Difference of Phenomenology; Part IV: Temporality and Racism; 12. Too Late: Fanon, the Dismembered Past, and a Phenomenology of Racialized Time; 13. From "Get Over it" to "Tear it Down": Racialized Temporalities, "White Time," and Temporal Contestations; Chapter 14: To Dwell for the Postcolonial; Part V: Phenomenology After Fanon; 15. A Phenomenology of Biko’s Black Consciousness; 16. A Phenomenology of Whiteness; 17. Africana Phenomenology: Its Philosophical Implications