- Lived:
- 1925–1961 · Martinique, France, Algeria, Tunisia
- Tradition:
- Phenomenology and psychiatry turned on colonialism; the founding philosopher of decolonization
- The Big Idea:
- Colonialism is not just an economic or political arrangement but a total system that deforms the minds and even the bodies of everyone caught in it — and healing the person and freeing the society are one single project.
- In their words:
- "O my body, make of me always a man who questions!"
- If you remember one thing:
- A Black psychiatrist from Martinique, dying at thirty-six, treated the torturers and the tortured of the same war in the same hospital — and out of that impossible clinic wrote the handbook of the century's decolonization.