Iakov Levi
Jews
Hugging
and Kissing Ahmadinejad: Oedipus With Side – Locks, Beards and Long
Coats
2006-12-16
Now we are also announced by
the Jerusalem
Post that
some ultra – Orthodox Jews
emphatically participated at a conference in Teheran the aim of which
is to gather
evidence
that the Holocaust never occurred. As the article “Eda
Haredit slams fringe over
I quote from the article:
Rabbi Israel Hirsch, a
member of this fringe group who lives in
Very
interesting: According to the Arabs and their peers the Holocaust,
that never existed, is to blame for Zionism, and according to the ultra
– Orthodox
Jews Zionism is to blame for the Holocaust, and the two parties hug and
kiss in
a conference aimed at the Holocaust’s negation.
I
shall relate to the Jewish side. We are obviously dealing with a
delusional formation. Henceforth there is no point in trying to examine
the
argumentations on the ground of the Reality Principle, or in trying to
confute
them adducing rational and historical evidence.
However,
from a psychohistorical point of view, this delusional
formation is of pivotal importance, because it sheds light on the
unconscious
–and therefore very real – motivations of the ultra – Orthodox Jews.
And
through them also on the substance of the mental and emotional engine,
which
moves and motivates Jews and Israelis, Zionists and not Zionists.
On the
psychoanalytic substance of Zionism, I have written in Exile and
Monotheism (Part II) . It seems to me that what is
happening today
confirms what I wrote four years ago.
Moreover,
let us listen to what Rabbi Israel Hirsch himself
has to say, and we shall be enlightened.
I quote from the Jerusalem Post:
For Hirsch, it is a sin for Jews to attempt to take their
fate into
their own hands. Rather, Jews are relegated to a passive role until God
decides
to bring the final redemption. Zionism is a rebellion against God's
plan
because it is an attempt to provide an earthly redemption. Hirsch said
the
Asked what he would do if forced to choose between
joining the Arabs in
a war against Israeli Zionists and defending Zionist Jews, Hirsch
replied that
he would join the Arabs.
"All Jewish Zionists, whether they call themselves
religious or
secular, are apostates who have cut themselves off from the Jewish
people," he said.
Popenheim said that he, too, was virulently opposed to
Zionism and
agreed in principle with Hirsch that Zionism was equivalent to apostasy
and
rebellion against God. But he said that there was no justification for
joining forces
with Arabs or Iranians against Jews.
"If I saw an Arab terrorist trying to kill a Zionist Jew,
I would
shoot the Arab," said Popenheim.
"We are faced with a dilemma," said Popenheim. "Since the
Zionists have aroused the hatred of the Arabs against the Jews, it
would be a
disaster if Arabs gained control of
"But as long as Zionism flourishes, blasphemy spreads and
more
victims are contaminated.
"We have to pray to God that he will hasten the demise of
this
impious sovereignty in a way that no Jew is hurt in the process."
Well, the outstanding proposition is that Zionism,
namely lust for the
Popenheim confirms Hirsch’s diagnosis:
“ as long as Zionism
flourishes,
blasphemy spreads, and the obvious outcome is that victims are
contaminated and
Jews will be hurt by God’s hand. That God will bring the collective
punishment
for the lust to the Land is not explicitly said, but it is implicitly
obvious
between the lines. “Rebellion and apostasy against God” by the Zionists
will
result in “Jews hurt in the process”.
After all, as is written: “All Jews are responsible for each
other”.
In The Exile and Its Consequences
Jewish Monotheism (II)
I have sustained that the sins of which the Zionists are accused by
ultra –
Orthodox Jews are the two capital sins of our infancy: Aggressive
drives
against
the Father (rebellion against God) and incest (lust for the
The more the Second
Exile lasted, the more the Promised Land became an
abstract concept, sterilized from its sensuous connotation.
The more the Jews were segregated and persecuted, the more they related
to
their condition as a God - sent imposition. Trying to change the
destiny
imposed by the divine will is to be considered blasphemous. The Rabbis
codified
the prohibition of rebelling against the rule of the Gentiles. Every
active
resistance against “'Ulam shel Goyim” (the Gentiles' yoke) is to
be
considered as a rebellion against the will of God himself.(The Exile and Its
Consequences for Jewish Monotheism (Part II)
Now, the Zionist
pioneers, in their craving for casting aside the yoke
of the Law of the Father, reconnected to the mental heterosexual
contents of
the Hebrews cultivators, as they were before Hebraism had become
Judaism, i.e.,
the religion of the Father.
We can say that Zionism was the product of a resurgence of heterosexual
libido,
triggered by the events in 19th century
(The Exile and Its
Consequences for Jewish Monotheism (Part II)
Furthermore,
the passive homosexual component of anti – Zionism ultra – Orthodox
ideology is
present, too: “For Hirsch, it
is a sin for Jews
to attempt to take their fate into their own hands. Rather, Jews are
relegated
to a passive role until God decides to bring the final redemption.”
We can conclude that,
prior to the First Exile, the cult
of the Mother, i.e. heterosexual libido, had the predominance in Jewish
psyche,
and only with the loss of the two most important symbols of the
maternal body,
the Land and the House, there was - at the national collective psychic
level -
a renunciation to the heterosexual drive, due to the sense of guilt
induced by
every loss, which caused a retrenchment into the cult of the Father […]
As Freud has exposited in his work, a retrenchment from
the heterosexual channel automatically produces a strengthening of
homosexual
libido. The catastrophe, which befell on the feminine object of lust,
strengthened - at the collective level - the homosexual libido of the
Jewish
people, as a child who loses his mother redirects his libido towards
the
father.
At this level, Jewish Monotheism may be interpreted as the
strengthening of
homosexual libido after the loss of the heterosexual object.
The passivity is the
consequence of the
sense of guilt activated by an active libidinal drive. An active male,
who feels
too guilty, becomes a passive female. Erections transforms into
contractions and
self – castration. Only in this way - by
the renunciation of the libido’s original target (the
female = the Land) - the Wrath of the
Father can be blunted and defused.
Popenheim
– Hirsch - Soros
What so
apparently different gentlemen as the couple Popenheim –Hirsch may
possibly
share with a modern progressive Jew like Soros?
More than we might think. Let’s
check what Soros said of
THE FAILURE
OF
In response
to Hezbollah's attacks,
Another weakness
of the war-on-terror concept is that it relies on military action and
rules out
political approaches.
[…] The Bush
administration, having pushed
Nevertheless,
Abbas was able to forge an agreement with the political arm of Hamas
for the
formation of a unity government. It was to foil this agreement that the
military branch of Hamas, run from
That is how
extremists play off against each other to destroy any chance of
political
progress.
Similarly,
the
The time has
come to realize that the present policies are counterproductive. There
will be
no end to the vicious circle of escalating violence without a political
settlement of the
George Soros
| Blinded by a Concept |
August 31, 2006
The most
outstanding feature of the discourse is that
As Popenheim said
"Since the Zionists have aroused the hatred of the
Arabs against the Jews…”
Everything
depends on
The obvious
misconception is that people are hated because of what they do. It does
not
work in that way. People are hated or loved because of what they represent in
the eyes
of foes and friends, and not because of what they do. Like beauty, love and hatred are in the eyes of
the
beholder.
Schopenhauer has already pointed that the world is a representation.
It is the
same distorted logic which attributes Islamic hatred of the West to what
the West
allegedly did to Islam. The 11th of September is to be
blamed on the
Americans because they …….(did what?).
The Americans, with their permissive and promiscuous ways
are hated by the Arabs and other sexually repressed cultures because in
their
eyes they represent the forbidden lust, and not because of what they
did (Cf. Why Islamic Terror Now).
Hirsch
says: “the
Soros says: “That is how
extremists play off against each other to destroy any chance of
political
progress.
So, the two
gentlemen are very similar in their way of thinking
To Hirsch,
the
To Soros,
the 11th of September and the global effort of the Islamic
terrorists to kill, destroy, and blow up are irrelevant. What is
relevant is
the war on terror declared by Bush, just because one day he rose up on
the
wrong side of the bed. Furthermore: "President Bush bought
into this
flawed policy, uncritically supporting
Again, what a Jewish
narcissism !!! The fate of the world and the
Only an oceanic
narcissism and a compelling sense of guilt can induce an intelligent
and
articulated man like Soros to completely disregard the substance of the
other
side’s motivations. Suicidal terror and incapability to live in peace
is the
expression of the psychosexual regression which is holding the Islamic
world,
and not of what Jews do or are. The Islamic world as a collective have
regressed to the placental –intrauterine stage of psychosexual
development, and
therefore they are compelled to act out the essential features of this
regression, which are paranoid hallucinations and suicide (See Why Islamic Terror Now).
The pattern
of thinking weaved by the couple Hirsch – Soros is alike that of a
little
Oedipal child, who believes that every thing happening around him and
to him
depends on his own (aggressive and incestuous) drives. If he lives in a
hostile
environment, abused and hated by his parents, he will put the blame on
his own
instinctual drives – usually the genital excitement directed at his
parents –
and then he will punish himself and his own drives. Usually, the
resolution to the usolvable stress of his/her genital excitement is a
regression to a former
psychosexual level of evolution. That is the reason why the more a
child is
abused, the more he feels guilty.
This is
also the reason why the Jews, who are the most abused people of
history, are
also the people who most of all feel guilty.
The ultra
–Orthodox Jews and Soros are the same protagonist of Oedipus’ tragedy.
They are
the scenic representation of the renunciation
to the lust’s object, because of the sense of guilt induced by
the
forbidden desire.
In his Totem
and Taboo, Freud speaks of the renunciation of the fruit of the sin
as
deferred obedience to the Father [1] .
The blinded Oedipus, who self castrated because of his lust for the
woman (the
Land). Blinded by the sense of guilt, they do not see where their steps
are leading.
In their
childish narcissism, they think that the world hates them because of
what they
did, or because of what they are. In short, because of their aggressive
and
incestuous drives. To them, the obvious resolution is to self – blind
and self
– castrate.
As Rabbi
Hirsch says: “
A dangerous
naiveté, indeed.
The
Voice of Reason
To day 16
of December, the CNN broadcasted a very interesting and long press
conference
that the President of the Palestinian Authority held in
Abbas did
not accuse the Israelis for the situation in the region. Why Hirsch and
Soros
do?
He accused
Hamas for the misery in
Do they
know better than the President of the Palestinian Authority?
Of course
not. The point is that in their accusations they unconsciously refer to
some
foggy and archaic sin perpetrated by the Jews on the body of the Father
for the
possession of the Motherland’s body, and
not to what the Israelis are actually doing on the ground of the
Reality
Principle. They only seem to be speaking of reality, while they
are speaking
of fantasies.
On
Survival and on Guilt Nietzsche
said: A Jew, on the other
hand, in
keeping with the business circles and the past of his people, is least
of all
used to being believed. Consider Jewish scholars in this light: All of
them
have a high regard for logic, that is for compelling agreement by force
of reason;
they know, with that they are bound to win even where they encounter
race and
class prejudices and when one does not like to believe them. For
nothing is
more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no
distinction between crooked and straight noses (The Gay Science, 348) Nietzsche
pointed to Jews’ inclination to overestimate the power of logic. It was
the
only instrument they could oppose vis a vis physical abuse. It
has never
been of any use, of course. Historical events are not dictated by
rational
thinking. Neither they are dictated by materialistic considerations.
Marxism,
after all, is the product of a condensation of wishful thinking with
Platonic
rationality. Events are dictated by emotions. They are the acting out
of instinctual
needs filtrated by Ego elaborations. And in collective behaviour the
most of
all. However,
there is something more. The magic
power of rational thinking, being a substitute for an instinctual
aggressive acting
out, contains also an element of the repressed need. We see now that
under the
compulsion of the sense of guilt, the Jews use rational thinking not
only as an
apotropaic mean against the Gentiles, but also as an instrument of self
abashing. And so, in time of need, instead of closing ranks even more,
we hear
Jewish intellectuals using rational thinking in order to empower the
hands of Jews have
passed from using logic in a pathetic trial to survive and to defend
themselves to
using it in order to justify their own destruction.
The Golem – rational thinking – has turned
against his Maker. Caroline
Glick wrote in the Jerusalem Post: Indeed, even if the Left
doesn't buy into Holocaust
denial, it can still agree with So from Mottaki's
perspective, Inevitably, those who
hold this view come to
believe that THE VIEW that every
problem in the region is
somehow or other bound up in Israel's stubborn refusal to disappear is
clearly
reflected also in the policy prescriptions of the Baker-Hamilton Iraq
Study
Group, in former president Jimmy Carter's anti-Semitic attacks against
Israel
and in the position paper authored by professors Steve Walt and John
Mearsheimer about the so-called "Israel Lobby" (which is due to be
published as a full-length book ahead of the 2008 presidential
elections). ( Column One: Why
deny the Holocaust? As we see,
using rational thinking - the Jews
battle horse – some Jews have reached the conclusion that Israel
enemies are
right in their advocating the elimination of the Jewish state, because
Israel has no
inherent right to exist. Logic is the instrument, but what is the
engine behind
such endeavour, if not a compelling sense of guilt? Have you
ever heard a British advocating the extermination of the English only
because
the Norman conquerors took All this is
not 'logic', but that’s the way it is. Only the
Jews’ sins are counted, by others and – much worse – by themselves, in
order to
deny their natural right to survival. The
Islamic Fantasy: The Land and the Ummah Without the
assumption of a collective mind, which makes it possible to neglect the
interruptions of mental acts caused by the extinction of the
individual, social
psychology in general cannot exist. Unless psychical processes were
continued
from one generation to another, if each generation were obliged to
acquire its
attitude to life anew, there would be no progress in this field and
next to no
development (S.Freud, Totem and
Taboo, IV.5 [SE,
Vol. XIII, p.159]) As he have
seen, to the Jews the fantasy of the Promised Land is consummated at
the
Oedipal –genital level. The Land, namely the Mother, is craved and
possessed at
the nationalistic level, through the physical contact. In the
beginning, Zionism
was perceived mainly as a work – of – the land affair (pioneering and
agriculture as a national priority). Afterwards, came “colonism”, which
is a
less heroic variation. Possessing the Land – Mother by these means has
a
genital sadistic and anal connotation. Moreover nationalistic
aspirations are
associated to genital possess. Country, Freedom, and Victory are women. As the
ultra –Orthodox unconsciously perceive, the Land – Mother is possessed
in an
act of “apostate” rebellion against the
Almighty Father. The sense
of guilt, that resulted from the incestuous possession of the Land, is
not
confined to the ultra - Orthodox and their curses. The guilt permeated
all
Israeli society, and only by this
assumption the strange self –damaging behaviour of Now to the
Arabs and their fantasies. As I have
written in “Rembrandt
and the Prodigal Son" , to the
Christians, the Jews represent the elder
brother [2] , who always represents a clone of the Father. On the other hand, to the
Arabs
the Jews represent the younger sibling – the hated Isaac who
dispossessed
Ishmael of the love of his father, and was the alleged cause of his
expulsion
into the desert, doomed to be an eternal destitute. Because of Isaac, Ishmael
was
deprived of a father, and he became the Patriarch of the religion of
the Absent
Father – the borderline Bedouin -, . At the same time – been deprived of the seeded land – he feels also
deprived of
the Mother’s body. The
biblical saga of the Patriarchs – Isaac and Ishmael – does not tell the
story
of two real persons but makes a personalization of the historical
destiny of the two
ethnic groups – Hebrews and Arabs. It is a flash of the actual
situation in True, the
biblical myth is a Hebrew creation. However the Arabs too adopted the
version
of Isaac, - the Hebrew Patriarch - as
the youngest brother , and Ishmael – the Arab Patriarch- as the elder
brother. If they
adopted the story, it means that they identify with the role of elder
brothers
dispossessed by their younger sibling. Henceforth
the element of envy, which characterizes Arab – Jewish
relations. Isaac (the
Jews) is the narcissistic younger brother, and Ishmael (the Arabs) is
the elder
borderline and envious brother [3]
According
to the myth shared by both people, Ishmael became a nomad, a landless
wanderer,
because of Isaac, who dispossessed him, and by his very birth deprived
him of
both parents’ love. And this is exactly the complain advanced by the
Arabs
against the Jews in these very days. Only the timing and the manifest
aspect
have changed, whilst the latent substance has remained the same. The Arabs
feel dispossessed because of that tiny part of the Back in the
sixties, it seemed that the PLO was similar to other independence
movements of
the decolonizing world – and might be that at the beginning it was -,
and as
such represented a trial of acting out an Oedipal content, mimicking
the Jews
in achieving an independent state of their own. However, as we know
now, this
trial was aborted at It might be
that Mahmud Abbas – the man - really wants a Palestinian independent
state. If
it is the case, it might also be that the actual fights between his
followers
and Hamas fans represents the last desperate trial to organize his
people at
the genital – Oedipal level, - like the Israelis – vis a vis
the surging
wave of Islamic fundamentalism, that represents the craving for the
ultimate intra
– uterine regression. It is not by accident that nobody understands the
chaotic
situation in the Palestinian territories. One just cannot explain to a
socio –
economic –narrative historian - educated in the womb of enlightenment
and western
rational thinking - the real substance of this Arab – Islamic affair. So, what
began as a Palestinian and Arab affair vis a vis the
Israelis,
namely a conflict on the grounds of national aspirations, now became an
Islamic
oceanic affair vis a vis nebulous and not well defined aliens –
infidels: Israelis – Jews - Westerners –
Christians, no matter who – they are “The Other”. In a paranoid status,
namely
in a condition of regression into the womb, identities are never
defined and
clear. Only the threat is perceived as very real. No more
nationality and identity – and therefore Oedipal level – but oceanic
Caliphate
– the Ummah -, namely the
placenta, where every self - identity gets confused
and drowns into the immense waters of the primal womb. It is not
casual that we do not speak anymore of Arabs, but of Islam. It is not
casual that Ummah means Mother. There, in
the placental liquid of the Ummah there is no difference
between Arabs
and other Muslims, even if Persians and Arabs have always hated each
other. At that lowest stage of psycho – sexual organization there still
is no
identity. It is not
casual that Al – Zawahiri – the number two of Al Qaeda - scolded those
Palestinians who want a Palestinian state. They must crave for the Ummah,
the primal oceanic womb. There they will also find their absent Father.
The
condition is the Jihad. Namely the primeval intra – uterine conflict.
The
primal struggle which is a precondition for every birth. And so we
came to discover that in the context of the intra –uterine Gog UMagog
conflict,
in these very days the attention of the world is much focused on the
Iranian
Nuclear Bomb. A big explosion psychoanalytically means “birth”. The
American
called their first A – bomb “the Baby”. And the
Islamic “Baby” will be delivered on that “baby” – the youngest
brother- culprit of being the primal
cause of every abandonment and dispossession.
Links:
[1] Sigmund Freud, “Totem and Taboo”, in The Standard
Edition of the
Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, The Hogart Press and
the
Institute of Psychoanalysis, translated by James Strachey, London 1964,
vol.
13, pp. 143-4.: “What had up to
then been prevented
by his actual existence was thenceforward prohibited by the sons
themselves, in
accordance with the psychological procedure so familiar to us in
psycho-analysis under the name of deferred obedience[...] Thus the
brothers had
no alternative [...] to institute the law against incest, by which they
all
alike renounced the women whom they desired and who had been their
chief motive
for despaching their father. In this way they rescued the
organization
which had made them strong – and which may have been based on
homosexual
feelings and acts, originating perhaps during the period of their
expulsion
from the horde” [2] It is not casual that the pope John Paul II, in his visit to the synagogue in Rome on the 14 of April 1986 spoke of the Jews as "our elder brothers in the faith".
[3] The psycho - analyst Joan Lachkar wrote an interesting article, in which she draws a comparison between the marital couple narcissist - borderline and the relations between Jews and Arabs. The Jews behave as the narcissisic husband whilst the Arabs behave like a borderline woman. ("Folie a deux in Marital and Political Relationships", in The Journal of Psychohistory, 22 (2) Fall 1994).
On the
other hand, Abbas is not Jewish, and he is not blinded by the same
sense of
guilt.
Being an
Arab, he can speak to the point.
In the
process of trying to counter through logic, the Jews deluded themselves
into
attributing to logical thinking the magic power essential to the task
of self - preservation.
Rational thinking was used as the Golem who will defend his Jews from
Gentiles’
abusive and violent ways. Being weaker, and therefore inhibited from
acting out
physical power, the Jews channelled the inhibited energies from the
locomotor into
the intellectual level. Like anybody who is inhibited from the use of
one of his
senses, re- directs the energies peculiar to that sense into another. A
blind
hears better, et.
Now logic dictates that
Confronted
with alien enemies, the Jews have a chance to survive. However,
confronted with
their own destructive sense of guilt, they are doomed to extinction. It seems
that where
their foes failed, the Jews themselves will succeed into bringing Jewish history to an
end.
The Palestinians call the Israeli
Independence Day “The Nackbah” (the Holocaust), mimicking the name the
Jews
give to their darkest historical occurrence. However, whilst the Jews
call
'Holocaust' the physical extermination of half the Jews of Europe, the
Arabs use
the same term to define the Israeli Independence Day, namely the birth
of the Jewish state. Indeed, a little child perceives the birth of a
sibling as
a “Nackba”, namely a catastrophic occurrence.
To the Jews, the Holocaust is associated to their brothers’ physical
extermination, whilst to the Arabs is associated to a sibling’s birth.
From the Invasion of Lebanon to the Charges of Rape
The Cease - Fire and the Hasty Retreat of Israel
The Disproportionate Reaction of Israel
NOTES
(see also Rembrandt
and the Prodigal Son").