Cheney-Cartoon conjunct syssmbolism
Concluding comments
ON THE KARMIC CONTENT OF THE CHENEY SHOOTING INCIDENT CONJOINT THE CARTOON UPRISING
.. in both cases, payback for the way they are (the unconscious; irony)
The president called Cheney’s account of the accident “powerful” and (twice) “strong.” These are the favored tokens of virile, pro-war, pro-torture Republican males (in group fantasy). It back’s the potency of the Emperor behind Darth Vadar, his authority. And places everyone else under his gun.
Both cases of this double eruption of the unconscious into consciousness are pay-backs in kind, at the karmic level.
Acting out shooting Americans in the face -- by his policies, first, then by his over-eager hunting companion second. What he did there is what he was going on a group level elsewhere.
Similarly, the images of Muslim/Arab violence sparked by the Denmark cartoons characteristically featured burning: of flags, buildings, cars, cities – now, churches in ruiral Southern US. Psychodynamically, this is an externalization of the soul-rape sensation of “being burned”, which proceeds as inner psychic rebellion against loss of spiritual blessing of super-ego function. Doctoring the Muslim’s symbol of transformation, the Prophet Mohammed, in PublicTokenSpace obliged to be shared by everybody by putting a bomb cap on his image is a way of doing that to their soul; X-ing its spiritual exygen, as it were. This over-bearing, threatening presence of eminent “punishment” gives a burning sensation for the passion to avoid it, please the Father (“No! No! – I don’t hate you, I love you.”), and repress sexuality (male individuality). “Hell” would token this: “Burn in hell, fiend!”, the revengeful instinctual cry of the abused child. Now unleashed on the west by the distorted use of “liberal” free-speech by Danish racist conservatives.
The final, and in fantasy respects most extensive application of symbolic analysis to the Cheney-Cartoon shoot-out showdown is the role of Darth Vader, himself, composite image of every evil there is to imagine (except that in Pasolini’s SALO: The 120 days of Sodom, which is a Freudian compliment to Lucas). He has pursued his son, as it turns out – Luke Skywalker, the cosmic hero to save humanity from darkness on which the baby boom generation was raised as common myth, paralleling Star Trek exploration, yielding later to the Matrix’s “Neo”. Now bowing out as of last year with the sellout betrayal of George Lucas to the old Vietnam “we forgive you, father” routine, at the end. Darth Vader was just trying to make a man of his son. Does anyone remember Nick Nolte in The Afflicted?
This brings together the core elements of the inescapable, implacable, twisted, perpetually on-going group fantasy process America is living through 2.17.’06.
Which sin is worse, liberalism burning the Muslim soul, or them burning a KFC? The Nation is saying “of course, there is no equivalence between publishing cartoons and burning buildings.”
ON THE KARMIC CONTENT OF THE CHENEY SHOOTING INCIDENT CONJOINT THE CARTOON UPRISING
.. in both cases, payback for the way they are (the unconscious; irony)
The president called Cheney’s account of the accident “powerful” and (twice) “strong.” These are the favored tokens of virile, pro-war, pro-torture Republican males (in group fantasy). It back’s the potency of the Emperor behind Darth Vadar, his authority. And places everyone else under his gun.
Both cases of this double eruption of the unconscious into consciousness are pay-backs in kind, at the karmic level.
Acting out shooting Americans in the face -- by his policies, first, then by his over-eager hunting companion second. What he did there is what he was going on a group level elsewhere.
Similarly, the images of Muslim/Arab violence sparked by the Denmark cartoons characteristically featured burning: of flags, buildings, cars, cities – now, churches in ruiral Southern US. Psychodynamically, this is an externalization of the soul-rape sensation of “being burned”, which proceeds as inner psychic rebellion against loss of spiritual blessing of super-ego function. Doctoring the Muslim’s symbol of transformation, the Prophet Mohammed, in PublicTokenSpace obliged to be shared by everybody by putting a bomb cap on his image is a way of doing that to their soul; X-ing its spiritual exygen, as it were. This over-bearing, threatening presence of eminent “punishment” gives a burning sensation for the passion to avoid it, please the Father (“No! No! – I don’t hate you, I love you.”), and repress sexuality (male individuality). “Hell” would token this: “Burn in hell, fiend!”, the revengeful instinctual cry of the abused child. Now unleashed on the west by the distorted use of “liberal” free-speech by Danish racist conservatives.
The final, and in fantasy respects most extensive application of symbolic analysis to the Cheney-Cartoon shoot-out showdown is the role of Darth Vader, himself, composite image of every evil there is to imagine (except that in Pasolini’s SALO: The 120 days of Sodom, which is a Freudian compliment to Lucas). He has pursued his son, as it turns out – Luke Skywalker, the cosmic hero to save humanity from darkness on which the baby boom generation was raised as common myth, paralleling Star Trek exploration, yielding later to the Matrix’s “Neo”. Now bowing out as of last year with the sellout betrayal of George Lucas to the old Vietnam “we forgive you, father” routine, at the end. Darth Vader was just trying to make a man of his son. Does anyone remember Nick Nolte in The Afflicted?
This brings together the core elements of the inescapable, implacable, twisted, perpetually on-going group fantasy process America is living through 2.17.’06.
Which sin is worse, liberalism burning the Muslim soul, or them burning a KFC? The Nation is saying “of course, there is no equivalence between publishing cartoons and burning buildings.”
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