Dominique-Octave Mannoni (; 29 August 1899 – 30 July 1989) was a French psychoanalyst and author.
Life After spending more than twenty years in Madagascar, Mannoni returned to France after World War II where he, inspired by Lacan, published several psychoanalytic books and articles. In 1964, he followed Lacan into the École Freudienne de Paris, where he remained (with his wife Maud Mannoni) a loyal supporter to the end.E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (1999) p. 293 and 403
Work Arguably his most well-known work, Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonization, deals with colonization and the psychology of the colonizer and the colonized. Mannoni saw the colonizer, with his "Prospero complex" as one in regressive flight from a father complex, using splitting and the scapegoating of the colonized to evade personal problems;V. M. Vaughan ed., The Tempest (1999) Appendix 2 p. 335-9 the colonized as hiding resentment behind dependency.V. M. Vaughan ed., The Tempest (1999) Appendix 2 p. 339
The book was later criticized by writers such as Frantz Fanon for underestimating the socio-materialistic roots of the colonial encounter.P. Nayar, Franz Fanon (2013) p. 37-8 and p. 50 Fanon also criticized Mannoni for characterizing French racism as taking place only in its colonies. Fanon argued that racism was built into the French metropole, and that Mannoni's failure to recognize this was a major weakness of his theory.Shatz, Adam (2024). The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 108. .
Nevertheless, it was to influence a generation of Shakespeare directors like Jonathan Miller,C. Alexander, Shakespeare and Race (2000) p. 166 who considered that Mannoni "saw Caliban and Ariel as different forms of black response to white paternalism".Miller quoted in S. Orgel ed., The Tempest (2008) p. 83
Another of Mannoni's well-known works was "Clefs pour l'imaginaire ou l'Autre Scène", Seuil, 1969.
Bibliography Psychologie de la colonisation, Seuil, 1950, also published as Prospero et Caliban, in 1984, and as Le racisme revisité, in 1997 English translation: Prospero and Caliban (1956) Lettres personnelles à Monsieur le Directeur, Seuil, 1951, republished as La Machine in 1977, and once more as Lettres personnelles, fiction lacanienne d'une analyse, in 1990 Freud par lui-même. Éditions du Seuil (1968) English translation: Freud: Theory of the Unconscious. Verso Books, 2015. 'The Decolonization of Myself' Race, VII 1966:327-35 Clefs pour l'imaginaire ou l'Autre Scène, Seuil, 1969 Fictions freudiennes, Seuil, 1978 Un commencement qui n'en finit pas : Transfert, interprétation, théorie, Seuil, 1980 Ça n'empêche pas d'exister, Seuil, 1982 Un si vif étonnement, Seuil, 1988 Nous nous quittons, c'est là ma route: carnets, Denoël, 1990
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External links Postcolonial Studies at Emory