Neurotics suffer from Reminiscences.
Freud made this the basis of his first theory of psychopathology. In essence, he believed that his patients had been traumatized during childhood (usually by being abused) and had repressed the traumatic memories; the memories constantly pressed to return to consciousness and the person, in order to protect themselves from re-experiencing the traumatic memories, had to exert continual psychic energy to maintain the repression. Nonetheless, the traumatic memories would find their way to the surface via dreams or "acting out" behavior or neurotic symptoms. All allowed the expression of derivatives of the repressed experiences while maintaining the memories out of awareness. Later Freud was to alter and refine his understanding of the mind and its workings but much of psychotherapy today involves the task of uncovering hidden (repressed, unconscious) connections, especially the repression involved in transference relationships and helping the individual recognize the links and rework them in a new setting. I bring up the danger of repressed (or "forgotten") memories now because an analogous repression and its attendant distortion of current reality, is rampant in our culture and threatens Western Civilization.
Yesterday's post on History was striking because only someone who has no understanding of history can confuse George Bush, who may be criticized on many fronts, with Hitler, the man who engineered, as a state policy, the systematic murder of millions. The discussion of the post was illuminating.
Robert Godwin brought in the concept of the "toilet breast" which Melanie Klien has written about as one aspect of the most primitive part of splitting (follow the link for a fuller discussion of splitting)which I have described elsewhere as a sine qua non of certain types of Narcissistic Character Disorders. There is another defense, closely related to splitting, which Shengold refers to as Defensive anality. In this defense, all ideas are essentially homogenized and made into an undifferentiated mass of (intellectual) excrement. Just as the child in the anal phase is pre-occupied with questions of differentiating self and other, so is the Narcissist pre-occupied with differentiating his own overvalued intellectual products from all other products. This leads to an intolerance of any data that threaten to disturb their assumption of virtuous ownership of the Truth.
History has been denied by the elite leftists who control many of our institutions devoted to disseminating information, including to our young. The results show. Europe, which is ahead of us in morally equivalent, mutli-cultural decay, has a plethora of examples. Prince Harry with a swastika was disturbing evidence of the British loss of their illustrious past, but this, from Haaretz is worse (Hat Tip: Betsy's Page):
The French satirical magazine Le Canard Enchaine reported in its September 14th issue that during the visit of French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy to the new Holocaust museum in Jerusalem's Yad Vashem on September 8, he asked - while perusing maps of European sites where Jewish communities had been destroyed - whether British Jews were not also murdered. Needless to say, Douste-Blazy's question was met by his hosts with amazement. "But Monsieur le minister," Le Canard quoted the ensuing conversation, "England was never conquered by the Nazis during World War II."
The minister apparently was not content with this answer, which, according to the magazine, was given by the museum curator, and persisted, asking: "Yes, but were there no Jews who were deported from England?"
Apparently, despite appearing in a satirical magazine, this was no satire:
One of the escorts confirmed on Sunday, on condition of anonymity, that the quotes in Le Canard were accurate, and that they caused great embarrassment. "It's a bit difficult to understand," the source said, "how an educated French person, who was serving in the French government during the huge celebrations of the Normandy landings, does not remember basic facts about the history of World War II, and especially Britain's role, especially in light of the fact, that France's great leader, General de Gaulle, led the operations of the Resistance from exile in London."
Leftists require that we know no history beyond what they approve of to support their Utopian fantasies. They have done a great deal of damage and it will take years to redress. Thank the Deity they insist has no right to enter the public square that the internet has given us new means to gather and spread information.
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