الصفحة الرئيسية - تعقيب على بيان المجلس الاستشاري للحزب الشيوعي العراقي / علي الأسدي - أرشيف التعليقات - The Party’s Secretary, Oedipus complex, and the Defense agai - Talal Alrubaie

The Party’s Secretary, Oedipus complex, and the Defense agai - Talal Alrubaie

- The Party’s Secretary, Oedipus complex, and the Defense agai

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Talal Alrubaie

2009 / 9 / 10 - 01:17
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Dear Mr. Alasadi
I agree with many things you refer to in your article or message and wish to comment on your poignant remark regarding a taboo (or should I say a cancer?) plaguing the party, namely, the refrain to criticize the Secretary. This refrain seems to be rooted in the predominately patriarchal discourse of the party, in which the ‘glorification’ of the Secretary is used, psychoanalytically speaking, as a defense mechanism against oedipal castration fears. The worst the party scores in an election or in a political battle, the more the sense of defeat and the castration fears are, and the more evident is the clinging onto the infantile ‘imaginary’ vision of a perfect, omnipotent Father, namely, the Secretary (the imaginary register is a psychological developmental stage and is evident also in people with narcissistic personality- Narcissus in the Greek mythology fell in love with the (image of) himself, a self-love that lead to his demise (You could find more about this and other issues below in my article, The epidemic of the veil and the plights of the Phallic discourse

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تعقيب على بيان المجلس الاستشاري للحزب الشيوعي العراقي / علي الأسدي