THE COLONIAL TRAUMA IN THE PSYCHIC CONSTITUTION OF THE VERY FIRST BLACK CHILDHOOD

Abstract

Based on the category “colonial trauma”, central to Fanonian studies of analysis of contemporary racialized society, this article aims to raise reflections on the place of psychic and subjective constitution of black children from 0 to 3 years of age in the context of expressive racist and infanticidal necrophilia. In the dialogue with Winnicott's classical thought about the constitution of the child's psyche, Fanon's work is inserted as an indispensable optics for analyzing the basic precepts present in the most subtle and violent processes of subalternization of the black body in its first contact with the white anti-black world or even in uterine life, in the expressive obstetric violence against black women. In this process of analyzing the psychopathologization of black childhood, authors such as Grada Kilomba and Wallace de Moraes are theoretically integrated into the reflection, expanding our reading of this expressive and violent phenomenon against the black child’s bodies in a state marked by racism and the coloniality of power.