tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post5733183419577849373..comments2024-03-25T03:20:57.659-04:00Comments on My Daily Struggles: Akin Gump and Primitive Anti-SemitismMy Daily Struggleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-82994793250745979542011-06-06T18:07:31.245-04:002011-06-06T18:07:31.245-04:00IDF -- name of the Israeli Defense Force -- actual...IDF -- name of the Israeli Defense Force -- actually stands for "I don't fuck around."My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-52404951847921136392011-06-06T18:05:11.261-04:002011-06-06T18:05:11.261-04:00In an unusually insightful observation in my self-...In an unusually insightful observation in my self-study <i>The Caliban Complex</i> that I wrote in 1988, one finds the following at footnote 9. (Apparently my thinking was a little too advanced for the experts in expert opinions!)<br />______________<br /><br />(Compare the age-old aspiration of the Jews, which found practical expression in the Zionists’ goal: the end of Jews’ exile from their ancient homeland, or “motherland,” and the revival of a lost Hebrew (phallic) identity. Interpreted psychoanalytically, exile for the Jews meant a traumatic separation from a symbolic nurturing mother, resulting in a collective identity loss in the form of a regression, on a cultural level, to a pre-phallic stage. Return of the Jews transformed the Jewish identity into an Israeli identity (and indeed transformed the whole region, once so stagnant). “The Israeli is now possessed of a sovereign state, whose power, though objectively not great, represents for the unconscious a phallus like any other The Israeli, by living in his own land, has thus refound the mother and forms with her a couple, as is the case with most other peoples. He lives, not in a vacuum like the Jew, but in a material (as Freud remarked, the words materia and mater have the same derivation) world that is governed and organized.” Grunberger, B. “The Anti-Semite and the Oedipal Conflict.” International Journal of Psychoanalysis 45: 380-385, at 384-385 (1964). And “[i]n his ‘homeland,’ and tilling his very home soil,” Erikson notes, “the ‘ingathered’ Jew was to overcome such evil identities as result from eternal wandering . . . and intellectualizing and was to become whole again in body and mind. . . .” Erikson, E.H. Identity and the Life Cycle (1959), at 172 (Norton: 1980)).<br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1278274209" rel="nofollow"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1278274209" rel="nofollow"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1278274209" rel="nofollow"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2010/09/caliban-complex-attempt-at-self.html" rel="nofollow">http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2010/09/caliban-complex-attempt-at-self.html</a>My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.com