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Put a Stake Through Freud's Heart
by Christopher Chantrill
May 19, 2006 at 9:21 am
WHAT SHOULD we do about Freud to celebrate his 150th birthday? Dig him up and “put a stake through his heart,” writes Spengler in Asia Times.
No one did more than Freud to reduce women to sexual objects, a condition against which women rebel by seeking to destroy the objectified body.
That’s why there’s an epidemic of eating disorders and “self-harming,” the practice of cutting yourself with razor blades.
But why? “Freud claimed to have discovered the source of all neurosis in the repression of the sexual impulse, or libido.” This seems to be harmless enough on the face of it. But today
Women enter adolescence with the expectation that they will be used but not loved. Men no longer need to feign affection to receive sexual favors; they merely need ask. It is no surprise that young women have come to despise their bodies, some to the point of destroying them.
So the old system whereby women gave sex to receive love is broken. And not just that.
All the major religions of the world attempt to sanctify the family; Freud sought to expose it as a hypocritical viper's nest of neurosis. Religion, he taught, totemized power relations; God was the projected form of the castrating father.
On top of that, the mother gave sexual pleasure to the infant through the breast, the father repressed the son’s interest in his mother, and the daughter bemoaned the lack of a penis. Ever seem a family like that? No? Really.
The indesdructible fact that we moderns have rebeled against is that marriage is society’s clever little dodge to keep men attached to the mother of their children way after the collapse of their physical beauty.
The love of a life partner, the shared love of their children, the honor of the community and the knowledge that the human life cycle is linked to something eternal are the consolations to women for the loss of their beauty.
We’ve thrown all that away, and none more completely and more emphatically than secular, liberal women. And then we wonder why girls are cutting themselves up.
Read the whole thing.
Sphere: Related Content |Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.
Comments:
Posted by: Colin Meade on 05/19/06 11:57am
You don't quote Freud himself on any of this. He was convinced that civilisation was both necessary AND neurosis-inducing. As a result he had no truck at all with sexual liberationism or "revolution". I strongly recommend you write nothing more on this until you have read "Civilisation and its Discontents".
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