Why genocides?
(genocide and circumcision, a theory of genocide)
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"The results of the threat of castration are multifarious and incalculable; they affect the whole of a boy’s relations with his father and mother and subsequently with men and women in general." Sigmund Freud[1]
"… The primaeval custom of circumcision, another substitute for castration, can only be understood as an expression of submission to the father's will… " (footnote of the above quote)
"In Western society, circumcision is imposed on the defenceless child to whom it offers no definite advantage and for whom it is, consequently, undesirable and threatening…" Bruno Bettelheim[2]
"Ritual practices of circumcision and excision have effects that reach not only the individual and their descendants but also other men." Alice Miller[3]
"Another psychological consequence of early circumcision is that it imprints an aggressive and traumatic situation onto the mind of the newborn… The impossibility to process such a tremendous infusion of inwardly focused aggression may lead, a posteriori, to the emergence of psychopathic and violent behaviour or, in many other cases, to the emergence of extreme masochistic behaviour."[4] Moisés Tractenberg
"Crime against humanity is the outcome of a totalitarianism one of the structural aspects of which is the abolition of individual consciousness." Mazarine Pingeot
"The trivialized terror of mad societies is tantamount to individual dreams." Claude Olievenstein[5]
Circumcision is a push towards genocide
Of the twenty-three genocides of modern times: Circassian Muslims (1860), Congolese (1870), Hereros (1904-07), Greeks (1914-18), Assyrians (1914-20), Armenians (1915), Serbs (41-45), Jews (1942-45), Tziganes (1942-45), Chechens (1944-48), Indonesian communists (1965-66), Biafrans (1966-68), Guineans (1968-79), Bengalis (1971), Hutus (1972), East Timor inhabitants (1975-99), Kurds (1988-89), Tutsis (1994), Bengalis (1990-2000), Bosnians (1991-95), inhabitants of Darfur (2003), Iraqi Kurds (2005), Rohinghyas (2012), twenty (87%) involved circumcised peoples on at least one side and five on both sides. The circumcised perpetrated twelve of them, of which seven against intacts. That strong correlation is logical; a voluntary violation of the human body creates a feeling of superiority with those who practise it and the inverse feeling with the others.
And correlation becomes causality when there is a rational reason for causality. Now, that reason exists; psychiatry will speak of collective madness without explaining anything but psychoanalysis enlightens us. Indeed, Freud stated a theory of the racism generated by circumcision that pushing it up at its end enables to understand the madness of genocide:
"The hypothesis that a root of those hatreds of the Jews which occur in such primary ways and lead to such irrational behaviour among the nations of the West, must be sought here too, seems inescapable to me. Circumcision is unconsciously equated with castration."[6]
Since, according to him and to the results of the psychoanalytic clinic, the unconscious likens the part to the whole, then, a threat of castration is also a threat of death. But exerted on a whole ethnic group, the individual death threat of circumcision becomes, through addition, a threat of extermination of the whole group, immediately projected upon the adverse group by the unconscious. So, circumcision is a push towards reciprocal genocide.
In an attempt to psychologize, circumcision is a particularly monstrous technique of domination of individuals inasmuch as, in the name of a totally and foolishly misguided and reversed ethics, it speaks against pleasure and life. Because of that, the mundane domination instinct, that would be content with merely enslaving the enemy, degenerates into destructive drive of foreign groups, paradoxically regarded as purely detrimental because of a difference deemed fundamental and essential (hence the Islamization by mutilation, of both sexes possibly). The reverse phenomenon occurs as well with other circumcising groups as with non-circumcising groups.
Freud has laid the foundation for the analysis of the phenomenon and his condemnation of the Zionist racism shows that he has approached both sides of it.
So, the abolition of consciousness (Hannah Arendt's triviality of evil) emphasized by Mazarine Pingeot is a submission to the unconscious that, run by rules just as rigorous as that of ethics, ignores good and evil (sadism). The banality of circumcision is thus directly responsible for the multiplication of genocides, of which several, still through contact with circumcision, are ongoing (Darfur, Rohingyas) and two, reciprocal and atomic, are threatening, still through contact with circumcision (Palestine, Korea).
Sigismond (Michel Hervé Bertaux-Navoiseau) – oldsigismund@hotmail.com
Independent psychoanalysis researcher, a former pupil of the Psychoanalysis department of Paris VIII University, author of "Masculine and feminine sexual mutilation, the greatest crime against humanity", for free at https://independent.academia.edu/MichelHerv%C3%A9BertauxNavoiseau.
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[1] Freud S. An outline of psychoanalysis. 1938. London: The Hogarth press Ltd.; 1964. S.E., XXII, p. 190, note 1.
[2] Bettelheim B. Symbolic wounds. The free press; 1954.
[3]Miller A. Banished knowledge - Facing childhood injuries. New York: Anchor press; 1997. Chap VII.
[4] Tractenberg M. Psychoanalysis of circumcision. Male and female circumcision. New York: Denniston et al. Plenum publishers; 1999.
[5] Olievenstein C. L'homme parano. Paris: Odile Jacob; 2002. p. 105.
[6] Freud S. Moses and monotheism. 1936. London: The Hogarth press Ltd.; 1964. S.E., XXIII, p. 91.
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