Abstract
Albert Memmi, celebrated in 1988 as the “prophet of decolonization,” made a contribution to the study of oppression and liberation that remains relevant today. The occasion for the celebration was the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Memmi’s 1957 classic, The Colonizer and the Colonized (Portrait du colonisé précédé du portrait du colonisateur). Neither his book nor its theme, oppression, has faded into oblivion. Memmi himself has devoted a lifetime to the elaboration of ideas he first presented in 1957.1 In this chapter, I further examine his ideas from a Jungian perspective.
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See Guy de Bosschere, “Incidence du Portrait du colonise sur la décolonisation du Tiers Monde,” in Albert Memmi: Prophete de la decolonisation, ed. Edmond Jouve (Paris: SEPEG International, 1993), 81.
Freire acknowledges Memmi, and Fanon when he was “putting on the final touches on Pedagogy.” See his Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York: Continuum, 2004), 122.
Maurice Berger, La folie cachee des hommes de pouvoir (Paris: Albin Michel, 1993). For a more recent application of the concept of narcissism to the study of political leadership, see Jerold M. Post, “Narcissism and the Charismatic Leader-Follower Relationship,” in Leaders and their Followers in a Dangerous World: The Psychology of their Behavior (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004), 187–199.
Guy Dugas, Albert Mernmi: Ecrivain de la dechirure (Sherbrooke, QC: Editions Naaman, 1984), 31.
Since writing this chapter, I came across a study of “the manipulator,” that draws on the theory of narcissism. The author affirms that the manipulator is a grandiose narcissist and that the most vulnerable victim is a depressive narcissist, who may become even more depressive and lose self-esteem at the hands of the manipulator. See Isabelle Nazarre-Aga, Les Manipulateurs sont parmis nous (Montreal: Les Editions de I:Homme, 2000), 41, 64, 174–175, 227.
Kathrin Asper, The Abandoned Child Within: On Losing and Regaining Self-Worth (New York: Fromm International, 1993), 186–193; Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child and the Search for the True Self (London: Faber and Faber, 1983), 56, 69.
Albert Memmi, Portrait du Colonise precede du Portrait du Colonisateur (Paris: Payot, 1973), 171.
Ibid., 40.
Ibid., 80–81.
Ibid., 87.
Ibid., 50–51.
Ibid., 57.
Mario Jacoby, Individuation and Narcissism: The Psychology of the Self in Jung and Kohut (London: Routledge, 1990), 86.
Nathan Schwartz-Salant, Narcissism and Character Transformation (Toronto: Inner City Books, 1982), 48.
Marie-Louise von Franz, Psychotherapy (Boston: Shambhala, 1993), 188; Jacoby, Individuation, 86.
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Alschuler, L.R. (2006). Decolonization and Narcissism. In: The Psychopolitics of Liberation. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230603431_4
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