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"Even when Fanon began working in Tunisia as a spokesman for the FLN (the Algerian revolutionary movement), he continued to spend most of his time in his clinic, where he encountered a vast array of patients—Tunisians, Algerian refugees and soldiers, Europeans and Jews. Psychiatry was his passion, not just a day job, and he sometimes spoke of his desire to undergo analysis and become a psychoanalyst after Algerian independence. He brought his political commitments to his psychiatry, to be sure, but he also infused his political writings with psychiatric insights. It would be perverse to ignore the central place of psychiatry in his life, as if it were simply a way of making ends meet."
