TERROR*
TERROR*
Of the “War on….” (continuation of previous)
- - - - - -* Sign used as text and token (Read: “Need for (re)birth”)
Level 3 …….*-ism noun used today for an attack in terrifying way, intended to evoke greatest psychological intimidation (dread, threat of the abhorrent, unthinkable, deadly). By reversed-extension, the act of ‘mongering’ this – scaring up the image of terrifying ‘terrorist’ enemies IN ORDER TO BE FORCED TO DEAL VIOLENTLY WITH THEM. (“mongering” – deal-making; stirring up conflict in order to profit off the proceedings).
These are the two sides “terrorism” and “terrorist”, deriving from the consideration that the situation could be real, or hyped (‘mongered”)
Level 2 - - - - - -* – noun for the extreme agitated semi-qualitative ( non-organ localized sensation) state accompanied by the felt experience of being overcome with the most terrible pain; can be partly psychological at more highly integrated levels of experience by threats of engulfment, smothering, defiling, shrinking lebenswelt, and the like (flashbacks from placental torture of the fetus in final birth stages). Symbolically: being forced back into “Eden”; thrown into hell.
Level 1 … terrified* - adj. to be filled with terror; greatly frightened
This is the lowest-level, original primary-process in the anatomy grounding the use of “terror” and its grammatical variants. The root –empirical content of its use as a word-sign in communication. The grammatical variants, plus metaphors, give it secondary experiential applications, e.g., to “terrorism” – acts caused by “terrorists”, IN ORDER TO MAKE THE RECIPIENTS (“US”) FEEL, OR RECOIL FROM, its use at Level 1.
Thus, to declare “war on terror” is to predicate a nation’s imperative Group-defensive reaction against a threatening “enemy”…. on the use of a term experientially grounded in the violence of birth-trauma. This can be done only through splitting off the text (what ‘we’ all understand it is being used to communicate in the politicized public tokenspace) from the token (empirical sign-content, related through depth channels of sign-use to the unconscious fantasy of re-living the fetal drama.)
Taking both “war” and “terror” together, then, doubles the links to this most powerful original segment. “War” symbolically connects to the life-or-death struggle against the womb/placenta, as sacrifice to rebirth the Group. “Terror” connects to the actual torturous suffering, excited afresh and spread by threatening the Group itself (also compulsively clung to on the token side as vehicle of the phantom nurturing placenta).
Thus, “War on Terror” doubles (1) -- the links through unconscious sign-use processing to birth trauma by way of both text and token; then also doubles (2) the two aroused contents approaching the experience from different sides, as it were, by turning one AGAINST the other – as if a “war on terror” could lead to NEVER BEING TERRIFIED AGAIN! by eliminating All enemy/placentas!
A permanent re-birth of All Persons of Faith! – others can be brought along on the basis of hosting parasites. The conflict becomes submerged in each individual, along the very lines already marked out, in themselves, to the extent they have individuated personal from group-family consciousness (development of one’s own relation to reality through experience, over against – but of course not foolishly rejecting -- parental or other ‘authority’. “War on terror” at the group level becomes something people are obliged to re-connect with, through birth-trauma, and deepest desire not to disconnect from the nurturing phantom placenta (“The Living God”), as if each one’s suffering was for All. This would be the last, terminal pre-emptive step in annihilating blood-grounded individuality. At the place where the rhythms of peace and turbulence; tension and relaxation, fat years and lean years – the rhythms throbbing through the womb of all creation – within individual persons, which they lived through once, from the inside, then coming to gradually understand, twice, from the outside – hiddenly “at war” with one another at a biological level, by the way we are – are thrust violently into the common present perceptual mix, placed in external life-and-death conflict between Western civilizations, permeated by Judeo-Christian values and culture, …. over against nations whose ways are set in Arabic blood, Muslim traditions, Islamic nations. Thus it is being permanently installed into the grammar of American history that these two meta-mega- relio-spiritual strains of identity will be fighting against each other from now on, driven by the pro-democratic European Judeo-Christian West in a delusional fantasy state that Bush conquering Saddam Hussein, performing anal rape on him, as the American-Israeli forces performed on all Arab Muslim Islamic males at Abu Ghraib, is the way a new millennial empire got birthed.
And it was/is.
Stillbirth
(after the first of the year ’05 – tsunami abroad; dead bodies washed ashore…
Bush’s second term celebrated; 7/7 in London (then 7/14+1) )
Note: the battle for deliverance from the sqeezing, entwining, crushing, hot, blood-sucking (oxygen-destroying), life-terminating poisonous placenta – is the most powerful of the actual ‘imprinting’ processes; the event that all creatures born of woman (us) actually lived through, were traumatized by, but heroically survived (“VICTORY AT SEA!”). By being made “war” on, the imperative of overcoming the trauma of birth, matching the deepest libidinal imperative to find release from excitation by discharge, on the loop from stimulus through perception to action always by way of sign-use, gets translated from an individual imperative to escape the birth-canal/placenta torture, into a group imperative to escape from a “the enemy” -- threatening not only its very existence as a nation, for all that it, as a nation, stands for as beacon of light of Western Civilization itself, even the most, most holy, reverential, sacred thing it is possible (for many people: not) to imagine: the Judeo-Christian tradition, itself. What a loss if that goes. But its on life-support now, maybe ‘went south’ 15-20 years ago.
Of the “War on….” (continuation of previous)
- - - - - -* Sign used as text and token (Read: “Need for (re)birth”)
Level 3 …….*-ism noun used today for an attack in terrifying way, intended to evoke greatest psychological intimidation (dread, threat of the abhorrent, unthinkable, deadly). By reversed-extension, the act of ‘mongering’ this – scaring up the image of terrifying ‘terrorist’ enemies IN ORDER TO BE FORCED TO DEAL VIOLENTLY WITH THEM. (“mongering” – deal-making; stirring up conflict in order to profit off the proceedings).
These are the two sides “terrorism” and “terrorist”, deriving from the consideration that the situation could be real, or hyped (‘mongered”)
Level 2 - - - - - -* – noun for the extreme agitated semi-qualitative ( non-organ localized sensation) state accompanied by the felt experience of being overcome with the most terrible pain; can be partly psychological at more highly integrated levels of experience by threats of engulfment, smothering, defiling, shrinking lebenswelt, and the like (flashbacks from placental torture of the fetus in final birth stages). Symbolically: being forced back into “Eden”; thrown into hell.
Level 1 … terrified* - adj. to be filled with terror; greatly frightened
This is the lowest-level, original primary-process in the anatomy grounding the use of “terror” and its grammatical variants. The root –empirical content of its use as a word-sign in communication. The grammatical variants, plus metaphors, give it secondary experiential applications, e.g., to “terrorism” – acts caused by “terrorists”, IN ORDER TO MAKE THE RECIPIENTS (“US”) FEEL, OR RECOIL FROM, its use at Level 1.
Thus, to declare “war on terror” is to predicate a nation’s imperative Group-defensive reaction against a threatening “enemy”…. on the use of a term experientially grounded in the violence of birth-trauma. This can be done only through splitting off the text (what ‘we’ all understand it is being used to communicate in the politicized public tokenspace) from the token (empirical sign-content, related through depth channels of sign-use to the unconscious fantasy of re-living the fetal drama.)
Taking both “war” and “terror” together, then, doubles the links to this most powerful original segment. “War” symbolically connects to the life-or-death struggle against the womb/placenta, as sacrifice to rebirth the Group. “Terror” connects to the actual torturous suffering, excited afresh and spread by threatening the Group itself (also compulsively clung to on the token side as vehicle of the phantom nurturing placenta).
Thus, “War on Terror” doubles (1) -- the links through unconscious sign-use processing to birth trauma by way of both text and token; then also doubles (2) the two aroused contents approaching the experience from different sides, as it were, by turning one AGAINST the other – as if a “war on terror” could lead to NEVER BEING TERRIFIED AGAIN! by eliminating All enemy/placentas!
A permanent re-birth of All Persons of Faith! – others can be brought along on the basis of hosting parasites. The conflict becomes submerged in each individual, along the very lines already marked out, in themselves, to the extent they have individuated personal from group-family consciousness (development of one’s own relation to reality through experience, over against – but of course not foolishly rejecting -- parental or other ‘authority’. “War on terror” at the group level becomes something people are obliged to re-connect with, through birth-trauma, and deepest desire not to disconnect from the nurturing phantom placenta (“The Living God”), as if each one’s suffering was for All. This would be the last, terminal pre-emptive step in annihilating blood-grounded individuality. At the place where the rhythms of peace and turbulence; tension and relaxation, fat years and lean years – the rhythms throbbing through the womb of all creation – within individual persons, which they lived through once, from the inside, then coming to gradually understand, twice, from the outside – hiddenly “at war” with one another at a biological level, by the way we are – are thrust violently into the common present perceptual mix, placed in external life-and-death conflict between Western civilizations, permeated by Judeo-Christian values and culture, …. over against nations whose ways are set in Arabic blood, Muslim traditions, Islamic nations. Thus it is being permanently installed into the grammar of American history that these two meta-mega- relio-spiritual strains of identity will be fighting against each other from now on, driven by the pro-democratic European Judeo-Christian West in a delusional fantasy state that Bush conquering Saddam Hussein, performing anal rape on him, as the American-Israeli forces performed on all Arab Muslim Islamic males at Abu Ghraib, is the way a new millennial empire got birthed.
And it was/is.
Stillbirth
(after the first of the year ’05 – tsunami abroad; dead bodies washed ashore…
Bush’s second term celebrated; 7/7 in London (then 7/14+1) )
Note: the battle for deliverance from the sqeezing, entwining, crushing, hot, blood-sucking (oxygen-destroying), life-terminating poisonous placenta – is the most powerful of the actual ‘imprinting’ processes; the event that all creatures born of woman (us) actually lived through, were traumatized by, but heroically survived (“VICTORY AT SEA!”). By being made “war” on, the imperative of overcoming the trauma of birth, matching the deepest libidinal imperative to find release from excitation by discharge, on the loop from stimulus through perception to action always by way of sign-use, gets translated from an individual imperative to escape the birth-canal/placenta torture, into a group imperative to escape from a “the enemy” -- threatening not only its very existence as a nation, for all that it, as a nation, stands for as beacon of light of Western Civilization itself, even the most, most holy, reverential, sacred thing it is possible (for many people: not) to imagine: the Judeo-Christian tradition, itself. What a loss if that goes. But its on life-support now, maybe ‘went south’ 15-20 years ago.
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