Thursday, January 21, 2010

Significant Moments: Jewish Rage

It just crossed my mind.
Arthur Miller, Broken Glass.
Contrasted with . . .
Bret Harte, The Devotion of Enriquez.
. . . Freud, a miner of sorts who thrived on "vertical" excavations into the depths of an individual's inner . . .
Lawrence J. Friedman, Identity's Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson.
. . . world, . . .
William Shakespeare, The Tempest.
­ . . . Bettelheim . . .
Nina Sutton, Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy.
. . . reports the various steps and external manifestations (such as affectations in posture and dress) by which the inmates abandoned their identity as anti-Fascists in favor of that of their tormentors.
Erik H. Erikson, Identity and the Life Cycle.
And somehow . . .
Arthur Miller, Broken Glass.
He himself preserved his life and sanity by deliberately and persistently clinging to the historical Jewish identity of invincible spiritual and intellectual superiority over a physically superior outer world: he made his tormentors the subject of a silent research project which he safely delivered to the world of free letters.
Erik H. Erikson, Identity and the Life Cycle.
It was that deliberate recovery of such a specific and proud . . .
Robert D. Kaplan, The Books of Daniel: Two views of the life and death of the American journalist Daniel Pearl.
. . . identity . . .
Leonard Shengold, Soul Murder.
. . . that kept his tormentors from reducing him to a mere symbol.
Robert D. Kaplan, The Books of Daniel: Two views of the life and death of the American journalist Daniel Pearl.


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As the President said several months ago, "Violence is for goyim!"

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