Freud, Flags and Russert
FLAG FATHER PLACENTA
POLE SON PHALLUS
STICKPIN FETISH
HOLY GHOST
Requiem for Russert
Post-Vietnam Father-Son Reconciliation Sans Remorse =>
The death of TV journalist Tim Russert June 13, 2008, delivered a shock of great proportions to the news media industry, aka MSM. Flag Day followed on the 14th, followed by Father's Day the 15th (today). The overpowering mythic theme replayed over and over in the endless heartfelt remembrances of Russert is the bond between Father and Son. He had written of his own relationship in "Big Russ and Me..". He and Tom Brokaw, also author of a best selling tribute to his, made NBC News a safe haven for the We-love-Dad folks seeking infotainment.
The sheer psychic force of this Biblical theme, punctuated by death of one of its finest blooms; pervasively broadcast throughout the following symbolically associated days in mid June, prompted this speculation: perhaps a "fourth" to follow on the 16th? -- resolving an inner contradiction the first three led to? (A kind of post-Hegelian thing.) If such occurs, it's inner dynamic structure will be teleological, as if the end, the 4th, acted as Final Cause, in Aristotle's sense, of the series <=3<=2<=1. Did The Almighty call Tim home in order to kick off a Time of Sacrifice? Resolving the inner contradiction between the Vietnam war Fathers, represented by McCain; and the Sons of True America, who opposed them. Unrepresented, until now.
The way it is shown, his totally unexpected instantaneous death (heart attack, it was said) seals his life's narrative as sacrificial son to his (Father's) Work. These would be those Fathers who turned against and sacrificed Americas children in Vietnam and Kent State. By reconciling with this Fatherhood, Russert, and the rest of the reconcilers, betrayed the Spirit above their personal Fathers. Soft religio-political fascism. It leaves Obamaites totally out of the flow (for good ir ill). Heil Lieberman.
(added: metaphysics and symbology)
Flags as Symbolic Placentas
Each fetus arrives wrapped in its placental sac, 'Bursting out' is the last act of natural childbirth, enabling oxygen to be drawn into the infant's own lungs for the first time. This event is the epic, once-in-a-lifetime Birthday Moment, imprinted in every individual's neuro-psychological narrative. And, taking flags as symbolic placentas, the epic Moment marking the Birth of Nations (or other collective beginnings). Flags carry this linkage -- individual births and the birth of nations -- in two ways: A. by tokenizing the moment achieving individual freedom; B. eliciting the shared unconscious group-fantasy of fetal siblings contained in the same womb-surround.
Confirmation and Elaboration
1. Experiences. a. Seeing Old Glory waving elicits pride (flashback to shared moment of victory);
b. Touching the flag elicits a special kind of 'shock' to the psychic system (re-establishing original closeness to the container).
These feelings, pride and sacrality, are similar, both being brain 2 arousals, but distributed in different contexts in a manner that leaves them textually dissociated in actual discourse.
2. Symbolic Acts -- separate
a, The Salute (palm-at-brow symbolizing total brain 1 visual-intellectual focus, merging inner and outer horizons)
b. Pledge of Allegiance (right hand movement folded over heart, then extended toward flag; symbolizing power merger)
c. Draped over Soldier's Coffins (re-wrapping the original sheath)
d. Displayed Properly (The act of 'showing' the inner common fetal origins; cf. also, waving. )
e. Flown on poles (The pole is associated in unconscious fantasy with the erect penis, or phallus, though this includes post-Oedipal content retrojected onto earlier childhood fascination with stick, poles, straws, swords, etc. The Flag Pole, itself then, forms an independent symbolic object to which the flag is conjoined, as if discharging the "we" seed of sibling spermata, triumphantly in the air, "our" womb-surround.)
3. Major Group Symbolic Act --
-Carried aloft in battle. This is the primary group-psychological use. "Battles" are re-staged re-birth rituals, always fighting an enclosing, dark, suffocating, unrelenting and overpowering THING, preventing us* from filling our lungs with precious oxygen. This THING/seque/MONSTER is the fantasized placenta returned as 'poisonou' (the "POISONOUS PLACENTA" -- every mysterious "Enemy" the Group-Fantasy Leader (=>fetal Hero) is compelled to "deliver the people" from is a symbolic phantom placenta. (Cf. John 3.14f)
Note: In current Group-fantasy discourse, the Poisonous Placenta is named "al Queda". One remarkable thing in the representation of "al Queda" as most, most vile, demonic, abominable 'terrorist network" is they have, or have been given, no flag. This goes with the group-fantasy thought (mostly unconscious) "They have no inner bond of unity to anything higher than themselves as a group (subtext: like we do); they are not giving birth to anything." It is altogether unique, a First Time, for ANY nation, or people, to wage war an Enemy unmarked by any bond except "terrorist". It is the moment of deconstruction of the Biblical Patriarchal Group Process.
POLE SON PHALLUS
STICKPIN FETISH
HOLY GHOST
Requiem for Russert
Post-Vietnam Father-Son Reconciliation Sans Remorse =>
The death of TV journalist Tim Russert June 13, 2008, delivered a shock of great proportions to the news media industry, aka MSM. Flag Day followed on the 14th, followed by Father's Day the 15th (today). The overpowering mythic theme replayed over and over in the endless heartfelt remembrances of Russert is the bond between Father and Son. He had written of his own relationship in "Big Russ and Me..". He and Tom Brokaw, also author of a best selling tribute to his, made NBC News a safe haven for the We-love-Dad folks seeking infotainment.
The sheer psychic force of this Biblical theme, punctuated by death of one of its finest blooms; pervasively broadcast throughout the following symbolically associated days in mid June, prompted this speculation: perhaps a "fourth" to follow on the 16th? -- resolving an inner contradiction the first three led to? (A kind of post-Hegelian thing.) If such occurs, it's inner dynamic structure will be teleological, as if the end, the 4th, acted as Final Cause, in Aristotle's sense, of the series <=3<=2<=1. Did The Almighty call Tim home in order to kick off a Time of Sacrifice? Resolving the inner contradiction between the Vietnam war Fathers, represented by McCain; and the Sons of True America, who opposed them. Unrepresented, until now.
The way it is shown, his totally unexpected instantaneous death (heart attack, it was said) seals his life's narrative as sacrificial son to his (Father's) Work. These would be those Fathers who turned against and sacrificed Americas children in Vietnam and Kent State. By reconciling with this Fatherhood, Russert, and the rest of the reconcilers, betrayed the Spirit above their personal Fathers. Soft religio-political fascism. It leaves Obamaites totally out of the flow (for good ir ill). Heil Lieberman.
(added: metaphysics and symbology)
Flags as Symbolic Placentas
Each fetus arrives wrapped in its placental sac, 'Bursting out' is the last act of natural childbirth, enabling oxygen to be drawn into the infant's own lungs for the first time. This event is the epic, once-in-a-lifetime Birthday Moment, imprinted in every individual's neuro-psychological narrative. And, taking flags as symbolic placentas, the epic Moment marking the Birth of Nations (or other collective beginnings). Flags carry this linkage -- individual births and the birth of nations -- in two ways: A. by tokenizing the moment achieving individual freedom; B. eliciting the shared unconscious group-fantasy of fetal siblings contained in the same womb-surround.
Confirmation and Elaboration
1. Experiences. a. Seeing Old Glory waving elicits pride (flashback to shared moment of victory);
b. Touching the flag elicits a special kind of 'shock' to the psychic system (re-establishing original closeness to the container).
These feelings, pride and sacrality, are similar, both being brain 2 arousals, but distributed in different contexts in a manner that leaves them textually dissociated in actual discourse.
2. Symbolic Acts -- separate
a, The Salute (palm-at-brow symbolizing total brain 1 visual-intellectual focus, merging inner and outer horizons)
b. Pledge of Allegiance (right hand movement folded over heart, then extended toward flag; symbolizing power merger)
c. Draped over Soldier's Coffins (re-wrapping the original sheath)
d. Displayed Properly (The act of 'showing' the inner common fetal origins; cf. also, waving. )
e. Flown on poles (The pole is associated in unconscious fantasy with the erect penis, or phallus, though this includes post-Oedipal content retrojected onto earlier childhood fascination with stick, poles, straws, swords, etc. The Flag Pole, itself then, forms an independent symbolic object to which the flag is conjoined, as if discharging the "we" seed of sibling spermata, triumphantly in the air, "our" womb-surround.)
3. Major Group Symbolic Act --
-Carried aloft in battle. This is the primary group-psychological use. "Battles" are re-staged re-birth rituals, always fighting an enclosing, dark, suffocating, unrelenting and overpowering THING, preventing us* from filling our lungs with precious oxygen. This THING/seque/MONSTER is the fantasized placenta returned as 'poisonou' (the "POISONOUS PLACENTA" -- every mysterious "Enemy" the Group-Fantasy Leader (=>fetal Hero) is compelled to "deliver the people" from is a symbolic phantom placenta. (Cf. John 3.14f)
Note: In current Group-fantasy discourse, the Poisonous Placenta is named "al Queda". One remarkable thing in the representation of "al Queda" as most, most vile, demonic, abominable 'terrorist network" is they have, or have been given, no flag. This goes with the group-fantasy thought (mostly unconscious) "They have no inner bond of unity to anything higher than themselves as a group (subtext: like we do); they are not giving birth to anything." It is altogether unique, a First Time, for ANY nation, or people, to wage war an Enemy unmarked by any bond except "terrorist". It is the moment of deconstruction of the Biblical Patriarchal Group Process.
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