Psychohistory of The Present 9.06.06

Psychohistory of The Present
9.6.’06

Killer Mommy and Death Wish Daddy
Historical Group Fantastasies prevail.

By

Sid Thomas

Document A.

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2006/09/cindy-sheehan-confessions-of-a-dangerous-mom.php

CINDY SHEEHAN: CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MOM

“The right-wingers who think nothing but the worst of Cindy Sheehan probably won't change their minds after reading Peace Mom. In the book, which hits bookstores September 19, the antiwar icon admits she has fantasized about going back in time and killing the infant George W. Bush, thereby preventing the Iraq War. In fact, she reveals, her son's death in that war almost drove her to take her own life: "Every night I had to restrain myself from taking my entire bottle of sleeping pills instead of just one." Other targets of her vitriol: “*****

This document is an amazing confirmation of what I was saying (and posted on OD forum board) back in Septermber, 5namely, that Cindy Sheehan represented* the neocon/right-winger’s dreaded group-fantasy “killer mommy”. This book, which had to have been under preparation during the year’s interim, illustrates three levels of reading the way unconscious group-fantasy plays out.

1. At the reality (Page One) level. The war is driven by unconscious fantasy of little children protecting themselves from the (similarly unconscious) desires of mothers to kill them (as in Post partem depression, and Andrea Yates). Thus, a mother who has lost her son in it, feeling the truth at deep level, acts out her refusal to go along. Hers was the first powerful anti-war message that found resonance with the group as a whole; it was ‘killing’ the deepest inner drive-motivation.

Then, amazingly, along comes “Katrina”, a real mother-nature killer, completely overshadowing and neutralizing war grief – but displacing blame for the destruction onto Bush & Co.! – largely unfairly. Like “this shows what they are doing in Iraq” (? – fantasy-fueled exaggeration). After that, another amazing ‘doubling’ of killer storms as “Rita” hits Texas. “St. Rita” connected with the home in New Orleans where many old folks perished – repeated by deaths of more elderly “fleeing the Wrath of Rita” on a bus fire south of Dallas.

These coincidences point to an Archetypal, rather than personal template of “killer mommy” fantasies. (From Freudian ‘conspiracy’ linkage to Jungian “collective unconscious” configuration.)

2. At the analytical level: “NO” becomes “the turning point.” “The awakener”, one astrologer (eric Franciscalled it, reading the impact of the events on the ongoing group-process. Suddenly, something was “in the air” (psychological background) that hadn’t been the before. “God” was speaking. Old philo profs used the ambience to construct meta-arguments for the existence of God (“if THAT’s not The Almighty,:what could be? – understanding THAT is understanding what “God” is, for whomever the word means anything). But of course there wasn’t an awakening to REALITY (=real knowledge of the unconscious template everyone began acting out); there was only a veering, or swerve in the direction of the fantasy driven group process.

3. At the explanatory lervel: the essential elements of the “killer mommy” archetype are made explicit – ‘mixed and matched’ in a fantasy book about Cindy Sheehan’s fantasy life (does she admit having such fantasies toward GWB? – how? In what mode of consciousness? -- or was this merely the cranked-up prose of one who can document some remark to that effect, and enlarges it to a political calumny.


If so, what is arrived at is the text of the driving force of the unconscious fantasy of those aligned with the book’s author: call them “DRUDGIES’ for short, since DRUDGE featured it – become conscious to themselves AS CINDY SHEEHAN’S! “IT’S NOT US (SECURITY MOMS’ BOYS) WHO WANT TO GO BACK IN TIME AND THROTTLE JORGE AS AN INFANT -- IT’S THIS ANTI-WAR, 60’s NEW AGE KILLER MOMMY FANTASIZING IT.

And there you have it. By eliciting this fantasy in peoples minds; splitting it off from themselves as source of origin; ‘dumping’ (=projectively re-locating, as in bowel movements in toilet bowl); killing (obliterating the unconscious driving force of her protest by writing it off as “Bush hatred”. Elicit, split, dump, kill: steps in the formula (template) for psychic cleansing. (note: the ‘dump’ phase is a mini-pleasurable release that accompanies a satisfying dump; “into her” doubles the fun by allusively mounting the bitch.)


Side note: in the wartime ambience, Sheehan herself would be feeling the ‘drift’, or ‘pull’ of the direction of collective momentum -- “give us you son,” -- and resisted it. “WHY?” Let Bush give her a valid reason, and she will go away. It’s not she, as Super-Mother, standing out self-righteously from other mothers whose sons die in war (mostly no more concerned about her approval than Jesus was his; assuming it). It’s she, Cindy Sheehan, wanting an answer from this individual, George W. Bush. And she’s not going away.

This can be read among personal family templates as the woman who, by destiny or misfortune, has come under the control of an abusive step-father male, who takes away the child she has had by another man. “Just please don’t hurt him/her, honey, OK?” – knowing what will happen. Feeling this as the ‘drift’ of the collective mood, and smart enough to do analysis on her own, Ms. Sheehan just said “NO”. “The buck stops here.” She buys property next to his in the county. Splits the population. Not letting him get away with it. And no one could take away her power (however, a delegation of pro-Bush mothers was headed that way to counter-demonstrate). But it merged with forces of a higher cosmic scale.

4. What do the three levels of play-out of the group-fatnasy dominants add up to? (The “fourth” of every alchemical transform, according to the axiom of Maria Prophetessa, brings open, as a “disclosure”, the inner unity originating in the first, unfolding in the whole: “One becomes two, two becomes three, and from the third comes the fourth as the first”.)

Next episode here later. Time-out. Bush’s speeches are blowing everything