The question that often goes unasked or unanswered, from a general theoretical point-of-view, is one that asks, “What familial, societal role is played by the maladjusted personality?” If the maladjusted personality is created and maintained by a social system, whether that system be dyadic, familial or societal, then it is reasonable to assume that such a personality is created and maintained because it is needed; because it is essential to the functioning of that system, or some segment of that system. The maladjusted personality is created and maintained in service to another. Often a maladjusted personality is created and maintained in service to parental and familial self-image; to societal, economic, political values and goals… The captive African’s maladjustment justifies European dominance and exploitation, rationalizes Eurocentric mistreatment of African people and thereby reduces their guilt and self-condemnatory feelings for behaving toward the African in ways contrary to their stated political and constitutional, ethical, moral, and religious principles. The maladjustment of black people maintains Eurocentric self-esteem, self-definition and identity, self-concept, sense of security and control since the captive African’s debilitated state, debased and degraded nature will not permit him to successfully overcome such dominance. Black maladjustment induces the captive African to engage in self-defeating behavior, which relieves the Eurocentric establishment of having to impose direct militaristic oppression and allows it to blame the victim for his own predicament. It induces the captive African to behave in such a way such that he will economically and otherwise, and apparently of his own accord, support the European establishment to the detriment of his own without being conscious of his doing so. Maladjustment is used to induce the African to engage in self-destructive behavior so that he may annihilate himself, or that his demise can be permitted or enacted without triggering Eurocentric guilt and without costly resistance… Taken from Effectuating a Revolutionary Psychotherapy: The Foundations of an African-centered Psychology
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 04:46:56 +0000
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