Sartre's Identity In The Hermeneutic, By Joseph Fanon

There is an old story about a lion that was raised by sheep. This lion would eat grass like sheep and graze the landside like sheep because in its mind, the lion was a sheep. Regardless of the surroundings, the lion attended to its identity as if it was a sheep. But, one day while they were moving through the valley, the lion heard a roar from the top of the mountain. When the lion looked up from the mountain and saw the lion it recognized something in the lion that was similar to itself that was not present in the sheep. Without hesitation, the lion leaves the sheep and follows the lion. There is something concretely restored in identity when authenticity is allowed to broaden. The identity becomes saturated in itself, allowing for a fullness of authenticity that is not available with …show more content…
When the hermeneutic becomes a way of preserving life, the gather of information changes. Freud gather his information like archeologist mind for artifacts. His diligence and depth causes him to retrace and rethink processes with the thought of finding the most efficient means for clarity. Sartre’s willingness or naiveté to engage people of different cultures and races was a means that proved necessary as means of living for some. Fanon used his particular hermeneutic to provide valuable information for those in colonized area and traumatized by the colonized mind. These psychoanalyst used their means of gathering information as tools to fight oppression and to develop fields that would extend means of assistance to others.
Hermeneutics, Fanon and Identity Khanna highlights that black men see other black men through a particular white gaze. Fanon brings these same critics to light that raises some stern consternation. If one’s gaze is muddle in a particular “white gaze” that sidelines their ability to fairly critic then how can they give a correct or stable hermeneutic? Fanon’s work with deals with the trauma of the colonized but