Ontogeny in a
psychoanalytical context is the development of the whole organism, viewed from the light of occurrences during the life, not in the last place in the
pre-history of early childhood, which has become
unconscious, according to
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts ...
. After the possibilities of ontogenesis have been exhausted,
phylogenesis might be explanatory of the development of a neurosis.
Frantz Fanon
Frantz Omar Fanon (, ; ; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961), also known as Ibrahim Frantz Fanon, was a French West Indian psychiatrist, and political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department). His works have be ...
, a Martinician writer and analyst whose work focused on the
pathologies
Pathology is the study of the causes and effects of disease or injury. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices. However, when used in th ...
and
neuroses produced through European colonialism, adapted Freud's concept of ontogeny. Fanon developed the concepts of
sociogeny and sociogenesis to explain how socially produced phenomena, such as poverty or crime, are linked to certain groups as if those groups were biologically - or ontogenetically - predisposed towards those phenomena. The conflation of sociogeny and ontogeny, Fanon argued, plays an important role in the
social construction
Social constructionism is a theory in sociology, social ontology, and communication theory which proposes that certain ideas about physical reality arise from collaborative consensus, instead of pure observation of said reality. The theor ...
of
race.
[Inventions of Existence: Sylvia Wynter, Frantz Fanon, Sociogeny, and "the Damned," Marriott]
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Ontogeny
Ontogeny (also ontogenesis) is the origination and development of an organism (both physical and psychological, e.g., moral development), usually from the time of fertilization of the egg to adult. The term can also be used to refer to the stu ...
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Phylogenetics
In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups ...
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Phylogeny (psychoanalysis)
Psychoanalytic theory