Frantz Fanon

In a counselling course one learns that, “self-esteem, security, significance, and perfect love are human beings’ basic need.” But, if a human being is stripped of all these, by force, it becomes unfair to judge him on any grounds! I completely agree with Frantz Fanon’s viewpoints put forth in, “The So-Called Dependency Complex of Colonized Peoples.” As a psychoanalyst himself, it is sad to note that Octave Mannoni fails to understand the basic human needs of a human being, at a psychological level. Fanon in his essay, “The So-Called Dependency Complex of Colonized Peoples,” wants to make its readers understand that Mannoni’s observations are Euro centric, misleading, and ahistorical. And I completely agree with Frantz Fanon’s arguments, because

The author, Octave Mannoni, is, moreover, aware of the ambiguity of his position. That perhaps is one of the merits of his evidence. He has tried to account for a situation. It is our right to say that we are not satisfied. It is our duty to show the author how we differ from him.” (Fanon,

Yet, it is Fanon the man, rather than the medical specialist or intellectual, who makes the book so hard to put down.” The fourth chapter of the book, “The So- Called Dependency Complex,” is indeed thought provoking, as it could revolutionize a person, a community, and a nation. It is a talk for many, who have been skilfully injected with fear, inferiority complexes, servility, despair, and abasement, and Fanon always puts forth his argument boldly, with logical arguments, and gives hope to people have struggled that, there is an audience waiting who understands them, and supports