The Psychoanalysts of Violence

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The film “Battle for Algiers” can be analyzed thoroughly through Frantz Fanon’s and Hannah Arendt’s polar opposite theories on violence. The implication of both theories is represented in the film that has captured the understanding of both insightful phenomena. Fanon’s views on violence are it unifies individuals into forming a complex unit organism that works together, rinses, in addition it is presented as an effective and productive mean that support the process of decolonization. In contract, Arendt’s theory detaches the concept of violence from power and emphasizes that the driven reasons for violence is anti-political. Both philosophers present distinctive theories upon the use of violence; Fanon elucidates his philosophy on violence that it’s a necessary journey to claim freedom, while as Arendt work degrades the use of violence in a modern political society that uses violence as a mean to sustain or accomplish a matter.

Frantz Fanon is known for his contribution in the issue of decolonization and the study of mental disorders affected by colonization. He believes that oppressed peasantry could only claim freedom and regains its justice through process of revolutionary violence, through this the population will confront the issue of decolonization that is a collective of psychological and physical racial colonization effect (Fanon, 1963). Fanon is among the few exceptional philosophers supporting decolonization from anti-colonial organizations in Algeria. In the wrestling struggle to declare freedom, Fanon (1963) made clear that the out-most effective mean is through violence. In his book “The Wretched of the Earth,” he introduces the binary structure that needs to be outclassed; in other words, to surpass the mentality...

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...tes sustainability and assurance in the implication of this philosophy outcomes minimum deaths casualties and sustains violence to a manageable risk level. While as the real effectiveness of decolonization derives from forces of violence that demands positive change and independency; as fanon mentioned, violence starts to break down when fear is installed into the colonial superior (1963).

Works Cited

Arendt, H. (1969). A special supplement: Reflection on violence. (Vol. 12). New York: Retrieved from http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1969/feb/27/a-special-supplement-reflections-on-violence/?pagination=false

Fanon, F. (1963). The wretched of the earth. (p. 106). New York: Grove Press.

Wesson, G. (Producer), & Pontecorvo, G. (Director). (1966). The Battle of Algiers [Motion picture]. United States: Rialto Pictures - Domestic Theatrical Distributor

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