America's guilt trip since the 60's
Note on failure of DeMausean psychohistory to understand the role of religion in politics
While DeM’’s discovery of the fetal origins of experience unlocked deep psychological mysteries of religious fantasies, esp. Jesus as "Christ", none of them particularly understood religion: what it means in people's lives at the conscious level (and gets argued about, displaced onto 'issues'), therefore didn't understand the deep spiritual implications of the '60's uprising -- nor, therefore, the reaction to it by the Repubes, which brought "God" front and center (and Catholics and Jews, who feel like they own the franchise; all who come after 1500 are "protestors" (-ants), "radicals", "rebels".....
The Dems did not stand up to this because they shared the unconscious sense of guilt. The "guilt trip" involved ALL, as I see it; how the 'sense' of it, as a collective fact, got translated into thought and act in individuals and in the group depended on politics, rooted in childhood histories.
DeMauses' "killer mommy" thesis of historical group fantasy, which he has pushed since 2000, or around there, based on Barbara-GWB relations, has been vindicated: NYPost p1 today: "MURDER MOM".:
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While DeM’’s discovery of the fetal origins of experience unlocked deep psychological mysteries of religious fantasies, esp. Jesus as "Christ", none of them particularly understood religion: what it means in people's lives at the conscious level (and gets argued about, displaced onto 'issues'), therefore didn't understand the deep spiritual implications of the '60's uprising -- nor, therefore, the reaction to it by the Repubes, which brought "God" front and center (and Catholics and Jews, who feel like they own the franchise; all who come after 1500 are "protestors" (-ants), "radicals", "rebels".....
The Dems did not stand up to this because they shared the unconscious sense of guilt. The "guilt trip" involved ALL, as I see it; how the 'sense' of it, as a collective fact, got translated into thought and act in individuals and in the group depended on politics, rooted in childhood histories.
DeMauses' "killer mommy" thesis of historical group fantasy, which he has pushed since 2000, or around there, based on Barbara-GWB relations, has been vindicated: NYPost p1 today: "MURDER MOM".:
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