This is an exciting, and
perhaps for some controversial, book. With a nuanced sensibility to the
originality of Fanon’s thought, Bird-Pollan challenges us to rethink the
importance of Freud’s metapsychology (especially the Oedipus complex) and
Hegel’s dialectic of recognition on Fanon’s thinking about emancipation.
- Nigel Gibson
Revolutionary theories
from Marx onward have often struggled to unite the psychological commitments of
individuals— understood as ideological— with the larger ethical or political
goals of a social movement. As a psychiatrist, social theorist, and revolutionary,
Frantz Fanon attempted to connect the ideological and the political.
