SOCIALIZING PATHOLOGIES

This page compares social traits and psychological traits showing how severe disorders spread and socialise.


Automatic identification between individual and society and the collectivising of disorders

There are two locii of identification of the collective unconscious: myth (by the way of art) and society (by the way of the collectivising of impulses).

The individual is inevitably identified both ways to 1-myth; 2-society;

 i.e. the collectivising of the individual structures produces myths and societal patterns, so that there is a part of our individual structure which corresponds also to a collective structure; and reciprocally, myths and society mould the individual along certain patterns with precise and definite procedures for definite and identifiable purposes. These purposes are thus fed by individual unconscious drives and motivations, whether we accept it or not.

In this section, we shall explore that double way identification between individual and society drawing on sociological studies.[1]

All types of structures collectivise, severe disorders in the meaning used here, stemming from defective imprints, collectivise also provided they are not rare. The result is a system where clusters of one type interact with clusters of another type. Therefore, all types of structural disorders are present in the society as significant groups. In spite of their little apparent social ability, there are two main ways for severe disorders to spread and maintain: 1-by the way of addictions, using drug-like products or procedures; 2-by "normalizing (a type of sublimation), putting the anomalous set of drives at the rank of a social convention, thus masking the defect.

Founding principles of the occidental society

Democracy and City Ruling: the right to enslave the whole population

The dominant aspect of the western societies is the development of cities, huge dwelling concentration in an artificial environment associated with a large supply of superfluous goods, services, and entertainments, the source of which is concealed "outside". This way of life is closely linked with the Greek concept of democracy.

Democracy is a way of ruling a people so that a minority (at that time around 10%) can benefit of an affluent life without having to toil for it and enslave the rest of the population to supply food and essentials, but also and principally the superfluous and "money" for buying armed power, seduction and delusion means, and alliances. Citizens thus determine what they want, then decree those desires as law[2], and apply those self-created interest based "laws" to the rest of the population. Those "laws" against the common will can be applied only by force.[3] Therefore, "democracy" needs a police force obeying by fear and hunger for money for three main purposes: 1-to levy taxes to meet its exorbitant needs, 2-to buy an armed force to impose its "law" on the rest of the "people", and also to make war and prisoners to increase the number of slaves, 3-to protect itself (the city rulers) from a permanent incipient rebellion.

Private property: the theft of land and the right to exclude

The trick of "private property" strips the people at birth of their natural dwelling and sustenance ground, the land, by "right" (i.e. statements of self-proclaimed city rulers having value of enforcement). This is in itself an important step in the modernisation of the enslavement method. The right to own "land" is in fact the right to exclude people from land and means of production, to the exclusive profit of city potentates.

The ideology of "private property" is the modern legal form of dispossession of the individual of his fundamental ethological birthright to territory. [4] Therefore, an obedient population is obtained by setting that it will have to spend a lifetime of work for the power to regain a infinitesimal part of that land (as consolation), and never the producing part it was entitled to at birth.

Compulsory education: the right to prohibit local traditions and the free development of thought and skills

Eradication of basics skills and local ways

The fourth imprint we have noted, around seven, is necessary to give the child the absolute right to think and develop skills by himself (with the help of the elders of course) and to prevent conditioning and the pyramidization of the society. This fourth imprint is denied and replaced by forced education, i.e. conditioning to submit to the work and market needs of the production system.

Flávia Soares[5] has shown that education is devised so as to produce inapt citizens and compel them to turn consumers of services. All skills necessary for survival and ordinary living (which normally develops during the 7-12 years phase if the freedom imprint is respected) are prevented to develop so that the citizens remain impotent, irresponsible, even for the most elementary acts of life such as moving, feeding, clothing, washing, sheltering, health maintenance; working, socializing; delivering, nursing and feeding babies, etc. They then become dependent on "services" the market, specialists "agencies", and official "institutions" procure at an exorbitant cost of course.The local natives are robbed of their local traditions and talents by education enforced by the centralised power to suit the metropolis needs. He is given in exchange mock knowledge only of use in the city social circles as an admission ticket or currency. They therefore have no choice but to leave the local habitat and make for the city, the only place where that "education" is of any value.Of course, this predating of cities (citizens) on land, forests, mountains, and sea people (people living in natural milieu) does not appear abnormal to citizens (now the vast majority) since it is their own rule and way of thinking which is enforced and applied to all. The "natural milieu" is turned into a commodity, a museum, a scenery, a playground.

The prohibition to recall and to think

As was shown by pioneers such as Aldous Huxley, Frederik Nietzsche, George Orwell, Guy Debord, Piera Aulagnier, and other authors, the prohibition to have access to history and to think is essential to the system. The eradication of the fourth imprint (freedom and the free development of skills) automatically blunts thinking owing to the lack of the necessary basic practicing. Obligatory learning also prevents thinking. Obligation is equal to prohibition. Prohibition is prohibition to know and to know-how.

The system of power can only maintain itself if one is prevented to know how he was conceived and built at the origin of life, prevented to know the process of power itself, and prevented to know the prohibition itself. The prohibition to feel, to react, to do according to instinct, and therefore to freely learn, think, know and know-how-to-do, amounts to obscure the awareness of self and of the system. The extent of that prohibited awareness is quite large:

Note that the preclusion of memory in the individual or the access to the methods of the mother are identical to the preclusion and falsification of history and the inaccessibility of the power in the society.[6]

Organised theft of the essential imprints, tribal needs, ritual, and religion

We are variably robbed before our birth and by "law" of our natural rights linked with our essential ethological functions: vitality, infantile attachment, emotional life, free development of skills, territory, tribal environment needed for the safety of children in view of the sexual mobility and fo belongingness needs. We are also robbed of our "future" by the destruction of the antediluvian biological symbiosis between us and nature[7]. Felicitas Goodman[8] has shown that the development of predator cities is associated with the preclusion of the essential rituals necessary to maintain that symbiosis. The rites of natural communities materialize the funding constant programs of all human life, i.e. the essential ethological imprints taken in our view as being structural in the construction process of our psyche: 

Imprint

Ritual

0

conception

[rites of fertility for women and men]

1

vitality

rites of vitality

2a

bonding and instigation of symbiosis

rites of welcoming at birth and initiating symbiosis with mother and local group

2b

symbiosis

[rites of giving strength and shape to infants]

3

separation

rites of freeing the child at weaning time

4

freedom of learning

rites of giving freedom of exploration and skill development to children around the age of seven

5

passage

rites of passage to dissolve the set of motivations of the child and implement the set of motivations of the adult, including introduction to sex, parentage, and community rights and services

religion

[rites of death to ease passage into the other world]

religion

[rites of contact with the other world (spiritual world: souls of ancestors, spirits, healers and guides)]

The prohibition of ritual in city ruled societies correspond exactly: 1-to the prevention of our symbiosis with nature and the consecutive onset of organised biological and psychological ailments; 2-to the spoiling of those essential programs which are the skeleton of our psyche, therefore a destruction at the most effective level possible.

Confusion creation

Prohibition to think is also created by breaking the consistency, integrity, harmony and meaning of life by several procedures: 1-by removing the real world, nature, from experience; 2-by substituting to it a fictitious fragmented spectacle, pieces of decontextualised information of which no one can really make sense; 3-by fabricating histories at variance with any possible real experience but presented as real life; 4-by distorting, replacing or forging the meaning of words, displacing significations ending with the general use of a false language; 5- by creating an incapacity of expertise in the face of real phenomena, a "programmed cognitive impoverishment and passivity in front of the world"[9]; 6-by atomising images, discourse, and artistic expression; cutting work and living spaces, and the thread of life into morsels; and also fragmenting the production of goods or services, the relations between persons, even between parents and children; breaking information and life into chips. These devices produce a fragmentation of the mind and an impossibility to feel, a blunting of the emotional function, and a programmed impotency to think in an ordered way and solve even simple problems. The function of which is to render the citizen impotent and uncritical, docile, passive, and desirous of orientation and guides to buy what should be bought and do what should be done.[10] 

Big science, false science

The prohibition to think also reaches the science realm. "Science" as a valuable knowledge for marketing and control is automatically alienated and prostituted to the system by careful financial control; it is financed by the market to the purpose of furthering the market and deluding the people. It is deprived at the root of its neutral function and is confined to the tasks of perfecting the techniques of manipulation, seduction and drugging of the masses, and to "automatically and instantaneously justify all what is done by the market-production system"[11].

Capitalism: the legalization of self-inflation

City dwellers consider an absolute right to have more and ever more of the superfluous and are incapable of reducing or dispensing with what they consider to be "basic needs", a characteristic trait of all addictions: tolerance and dependence[12]. Addiction to comfort, possession, scenery, pleasure, change, power and play, and drug has of course socialised itself and has been legalised by the city dwellers and enforced on the larger population by the devices of "minimum obligatory living standard" and "Roman right" (see below). Now the effort to get more than one can have from personal resources led to consider using the resources of others for personal "needs" (driven by the terrible want for the "drug"), that is:

other's land and natural resources

—>

by armed force and one-sided appropriation; legalised under the "private property" act; now done by putting individuals and even countries into economical dependency;

other's skills and traditions

—>

by de-culturing: prohibition to use traditional local development in the view of being moulded by official education;

other's reserves

—>

by financial capitalism;

other's strength of creation

—>

by deprivation by "right" of the results of one's efforts.

Capitalism is technically the "right" to use other's savings (public monetary mass) to build up enterprises greater than one could create by own strength or persuasion power. This trick permits to disconnect productive work (the result of those who work in the plant and rent their capacities and time) from speculative work (the result of those who frustrate themselves of some money by renting it). Whether under the form of state capitalism (called communism) or caste capitalism (called socialism) or private capitalism (privalism? not yet called democralism?) or dispersed capitalism (globalism), the goal and method is the same: to enslave the larger mass possible to one's personal purposes by the "legal" use of the savings of others, which Santos calls globalitarism[13] and Chesnais "oligarchism"[14]. The result of this lever effect is the rapid development of the biggest human machines ever dreamt of to the exclusive profit of owners.

It is very surprising to the layman that the degree of "civilisation" is defined by experts and official organisms of the occidental society as the quantity of energy consumed per habitant. To many, this figure would mean a measure of our waste. Wisdom would rather measure by the capacity of economy, saving for the future and management of renewable sources. Nonetheless, we keep on assimilating our enormous waste of energy with a degree of advancement, and measure other people and label them with this quantity.

The "need" for ever more consumption of energy is a reflection of our enslavement ideology and inflation of self: the more we command the safer we feel. The craving for a gigantic self image (or megalomania) is the result of the ‘inflation of the self' well known to psychologists and invariably associated with the psychotic series and the heavy addictions needed to try and maintain a precarious balance.

Drugs and consumism: the escaping and numbing system

Mass drugs of many forms have been extensively described and studied of which the most important are[15]: excess fragmented and decontextualised scenery and information; compulsive acquisition and illusive possessing of programmed disposable goods (including non material goods such as journeys, pastimes, etc.); virtual nonsensical productions; neuroactive chemicals in the food and in banal prescriptions[16]. They produce a strong denial of the actuality and an insensitivity to human sentiments and suffering.[17]

As we have seen addictions amounts to the compulsive usage of some device to the point of tolerance and dependence (constant need for more, and impossibility of stopping without psychic collapse). The most usual addictive devices used in our society are:

alcohol and other natural alkaloids and opiates (tobacco, narcotics, psychedelics, etc.)

- natural substitute for neurotransmitters creating psychic sleep, denial of self and others, avoidance, artificial autism, even in minor quantities

- creates an artificial adjoint psyche (symbiosis with product), takes excuse from mass consumption

psychopharmaceutic drugs

- creates self-denial and avoidance, destroys cerebral cells in limbic system and hypothalamus (centres of vitality, emotions and desire), creates an artificial psyche using medicine as a symbiotic official other

- takes excuse from medicine mistaken as "science"

comfort, pleasure, leisure, distraction and play

- individuals terrorized and deprived of symbiotic contact at birth mask and sooth the infirmity by a craving for "goods" and "services"

- terror of not getting and losing, fear from lack of contact and incapacity of facing the natural exigencies of life, extreme submissiveness

sex (infantile, not genital)

- extreme needs for love, esteem, contact, and self-reassurance displaced on sex; also need for the release of excessive tensions

power and related systems like possession, tyranny, destruction, search for honours, fame, etc.

- founded on terror and impotency, very deficient image of self, extreme shame and guilt, extreme submissiveness

- denial of other, fear of not getting, compulsory control over others and events for survival

Machinising unlimited

There are two processes at work in the mechanisation of the world: 1-a constant effort to put life at distance under all of its forms by all means possible; 2-a constant effort to concretise purely mental abstract productions and make them "the world", replacing the real reality (objects, activities, or art created by sentiment, necessities, or emotions) by a fictitious reality created by mind (abstract contraptions).

Many people would not care, since processes having "human" quality will not produce much resonance in them. This is because they have been themselves dispossessed of their human instincts at the origin of life. They have been desensitised or possibly not sensitised and transformed into mechanical beings indifferent to human versus non-human aspects of the world. They are identified to the industrialised world and unconcerned by its inhuman quality. The desire for machines, the creation of machinised men by the quantity, and the ideology that machines are the solution to unhappiness, the constant concretisation of mechanical mind productions (instead of sentiment productions), and the insistence that those mental productions are the real world, are very dominant characteristics of our occidental model of society and also characteristics of the autistic series.

Masking the real practices by atomisation of the actions

Work is fragmented in such a manner that no one can know what he is doing exactly, for what reason, and to what purpose, nor have a view of the whole process and have an evaluation of it in terms of humanness, morals, or ethics. A chain of obedient operators is formed, each ignorant of what the other does, in what conditions started the work and what is the end result, and what is the reason for that work. The complete process is veiled to the public by false or incomplete information. Each operator has just "obeyed" to orders and "done no harm", just bought and added some work and sold an item, all steps being "justified" by the principle of the market ideology: "what sells is good". Now, the origin or end activity could be the distribution of a poison food, the making of a sterilising product to hide in the vaccine for South African countries, stealing eyes from Colombian children to sell corneas to Europeans, or producing the last discovered drug to kill selectively black people. But that way, no one is responsible, no one has done no harm. No one can respond for the disaster since no one has done it. No one.[18] Organised theft is also divided into little rules, articles, decrees, principles, texts, priorities, each issued by a different organization with a different board, so that no real institution may be taken as responsible for organized robbery: everyone has simply made his duty according the law and orders and fulfilled his mandate.

Disposable human matter

Of course, the result is that man, as a production unit and its indispensable counterpart consumer unit has to be disposed of when he cannot meet one of those two functions. Which happens to individuals either from rebellion or from breakdown, two inevitable outcomes of the organised creation of disorders. The anomalous psychic construction produced at birth results in frail, tense, and poorly apt individuals associated with an increasing number of out of norms. In France, the rate of adolescent suicide has already increased by 30% owing to the introduction of the systematic epidural anaesthesia during labour, according to the first longitudinal studies, and this figure is bound to increase. Owing to the same childbirth "technology" the rate of illiteracy and school problems boom up. The next generations will produce an important number of either docile pseudo-adults without curiosity nor will, or agitated, unstable, and unreliable ones, largely inapt for work and self-sustenance, not to say for reproduction and correct parenting.

Infants, children, and adults declared unsuitable by the market system are automatically "taken in charge" by the ever increasing specialised brigades of the eradication sector. Man is conserved only for its consumer value. If not potent or willing for this imposed game, he is handed to the "assistance services" for which he is a prey and a justifier of high wages and expenses. And when he can no longer play the part of excuse for the very well fed rescue institutions, he is terminated by one of those appropriate legal means: 1-by a certificate of inaptitude associated with a pension small enough to prevent any form of efficient therapy or training, a label hampering any type of social activity and work later, an eradication of social life; 2-by neuroleptics or antidepressants under a policial control of their intake (chemicals producing irreversible damage to the core brain and especially to the vitality source or to the emotional nuclei[19]) i.e. a controlled murder; 3-by induced suicide (a regular outcome of case 1 and 2).[20]

Total absence of morals and ethics

The only guide of capitalism is economical, i.e. an income susceptible of self-sustaining production companies and governments justifies any activity without any attention to how it was produced and what is its effect at destination. The human event at the origin of the production has no value, and the human result of the activity equally does not have any. Only its capacity in producing sufficient turnover to meet the costs and pay the rent of invested money is in itself a justification for its existence and continuance.

Many authors have stated the complete absence of ethics in the countries devoted to the industry-market system. In psychology, ethics is equivalent to the respect of taboos, i.e. a form of expression of the fundamental laws of nature. In industrial societies, all major taboos are violated, and the level of what is permissible, the legal level, is set as low as possible so as to authorize activities at the lowest possible level that is at the economic level. The breach of the taboos is also a form of denial of the essential imprints since essential imprints and taboos are one and the same thing, and is associated with the denial of the human individual, the denial of the "other" and any form of alterity.

Methods of enforcement

Terror or un-life inoculated at birth

The system of power we use maintains submissiveness 1- by the menace of the dispossession of essentials, or if not sufficient 2- by removal by some policial force. The individual is unable to recognize that that dispossession was set before his conception and that rejection has been acted on him right at birth, leaving a terror of their happening in the future not identified as a recurrence of former events. Now, with the advent of epidural anaesthesia and anticipated caesarean section in the delivery factories, individuals of the autistic-psychotic series are produced by numbers. A similar result is obtained by neuroleptics, thus destroying vitality, sexual activity, emotion desire, and sentiment functions.[21] Occidental politics, via controled information, compulsory economical dependency, and chemical deactivation has thus succeeded to produce the zombies of one of its dreams: absolute enslavement inoculated at birth maintained later by anonymous informative and chemical inoculation.

The prohibition to think: the subterfuge of the power should never be disclosed

Piera Aulagnier has shown extensively how in the psychotic relationships one is prevented to discover about ones birth and the originary horror to which he has been submitted when a foetus, neonate of infant, and to what purpose. That procedure is observable and identical on three levels: personal, social, mythical. The prohibition to think principle is identical in the family and in the society. The "power" does not let anyone investigate on the originary events and their perpetrators nor on the grounds for the carrying out of such an horror. In Nineteen eighty-four, George Orwell shows how the "power" is equipped with a "thought police" and a staff erasing all traces of history the (that is the originary events) so that it can keep on terrorising people and maintain a mechanical de-humanised world. Piera Aulagnier adds exploits this myth pointing out our collective unconscious construction.[22]

Horst Karasek[23] and Kutchins and Kirk[24] show how democratic governments equip themselves with the means of erasing anyone from the society with "legal" methods accepted by the whole population. They show how psychiatry functions today exactly as the Holy Inquisition for seven centuries and with the same methods. Grotstein exposes the identity of what we do to foetuses and newborns with ancient practises of children sacrifice, and shows that this inhuman practice is the root of the major psychic disturbances in our western world.[25] Noam Chomsky has taken long steps to produce evidence of how a government controls all means of communication so that no truth can ever be revealed and how power works and maintains itself against all counter forces present in the world.[26]

The "power" never let the "subject" think otherwise than the official set of legalised thoughts, and even the scientists, historians, philosophers, writers, artists, etc. are under this control. Any independent thinker is invariably eliminated and if possible given as an example so as to terrorise the population, and all governments have ways of torturing and removing of the society any "out of the dogma" thinking person. There are legions of thinkers reduced to nil, tortured or eliminated, or brainwashed, on the sole ground of using an independent way of thinking at variance with the "official thought".

Many investigators have put to light this universal procedure of the democratic countries: the will to impose a unique ready-made thoughts system and way of life which is equal to prohibit thinking.

Roman right: the right to anti-ethics

The Roman right is based on a few basic principles:

The result of roman right is an innumerable number of absurdities of which examples abound.

Of course, all would agree that it is stupid to pretend to write all what is good for all people and all what is bad and also that it is stupid to pretend that what is good for some people in certain circumstances is also good for others under different circumstances. Both principles are nonetheless the base of Roman right. Laws are made by those in power for their own convenience. People have no right for themselves, they are but submitted to the law of those who produce it. Executors of the law are cowards fearing for their property if they do not obey the power above them. We have seen in the 30-40s in Europe to what extremities this type of obedience leads.

The only real laws are that of nature, the enunciation of which may be useful for personal and group guidance. Evidently, one cannot improve on natural laws, nor change them and it is therefore irrelevant and illegitimate (taboo) to write own laws.

Roman right "laws" are highly inconsistent and contradict themselves so that one is always more or less liable to prosecution and do not account for singular or local agreements. An inconsistent and centralised "system of laws" creates a dissolution of meaning, a fracture in the mind of people, a false world, and enhances the prohibition to think.

 In short:

The Roman law device is the enforcement, by an armed body, of the right to legalise the drives of any sufficiently common disorder, ending in the legalisation of the annihilation of the human.

Comparison of societal and disorders producing relationships

Severe disorders are initiated by distorted perinatal and postnatal relationships apart from later trauma and abuse. The mother is faced with the necessity to take care of a child having reactions differing from the usual set of natural reactions (not the "normalised" reactions which are already off the instinctual). Whether a capable mother or a troubled one, she will be disturbed by the child. Either from the natural demands she cannot meet, or from its survival reactions.

Thus, the number of cases of reciprocal responses of the troubled mother-child relationship is quite high and cannot be conveniently listed here, if at all, not to mention if we wished to delineate the triangular mother-father-child entanglement. Here we exemplify realistic model cases copied from archaic therapy notes which may guide in identifying these types of relationships in social life.

 

Series type

Mother

Child

Autistic series 1 (absence of vitalisation)

(absolute unlife)

Dominating, cold and authoritative, rejecting of the child while pretending loving him/her, undetectable violence.

 

Unresponsive, soft, docile, unwanting, fearing contact, little or no drive, isolated and unconcerned. Elementary functions do not develop, except mental ability. Imitative.

Autistic series 2 (vitalisation reverted into womb-like shell)

(absolute isolation)

Tense and domineering, brutal, very rejecting of the child while pretending taking much care of him, pushing him/her to appear normal.

 

Shelled-in, tense and hard, not responsive, rejects contact, violent if forced or blocked. Inner mental world, mechanical child, taste for mechanical or virtual occupations.

Psychotic series 1 (absence of symbiosis)

(absolute wanting)

Indifferent to the child's needs and problems, refuses body contact, no affective life. Faulty communication. Self-satisfied and uncritical, feels "normal". Sex life replaced by constant need for the spouse, the child with often a seductive incestuous behaviour.

Erratic behaviour, sparse and faulty communication, lack of emotions, strong invisible demands for dependency relationships and recognition by elders. Hate of other sex. Little sexual activity, invariably childish. Possibly impulsive, with bursts of self-aggression and/or unconscious suicide by accident.

Psychotic series 2 (adverse symbiosis)

(absolute fear and control)

Domineering and power-ridden although unconsciously fearing others and especially men and sex. Excessive sexual (not genital) activity, associated with despise and/or obliteration of man, overtly castrating.

Wants children as own extension organs, for self-satisfaction and thrill of driving the other at will. Prevents thinking by enforcing an absolute set of ideas and principles.

Fearful and submissive except for occasional bursts of violent uncontrol–lable rebellion. Constant asking for positive regard, takes reference on the thoughts and mood of others need to be in presence of important persons. Affects independence while scrupulously copying models to appear "normal".

Disturbing ways of talking and relating. Strange presence. Secretly destructive.

Paranoic series 1 (antisocial)

(absolute lack of sentiment)

Very indulgent mother with evanescent or absent father in a lawless social context, living in an unending fusion and admiration with her child.

Defiant, denying, breach maker, uses an uncanny and disturbing speech. Makes troubles so as to be remarked and bothers as much as possible, seeks blows and wrath in order to be an absolutely justified victim and finally collapse.

Paranoic series 2 (destructive symbiosis)

(absolute destruction and hate)

Abusive mother annulling father, child and society. Rejectful and destructive fusion with child. Terrorised but reversed in tyrant. Hateful of all others, and especially men. Impulsive, speaking and acting destructively while being absolutely justified. Absent sex, or excessive sex to prove she has one and the men have none, disqualify men especially sexually.

Terrorised and hateful, revengeful, with bursts of violence, mania, periods of elation and depression. Terror in front of men, especially authorities, avoids them or risks breakdown after forced meetings with them. Difficult relationship with men or with women, very sexual, but tendency to be destructive or to run away.

Neurotic series (conflictual separation)

(frustration and conflicts)

Adequate early life with mother and father, but difficulties of wanting and anguish in view of the requirements of sex, parenting, and social life.

Apt but often bothered by emotions or repression when confronted by the requests of reality and social necessities.

Both attitudes are reciprocating and reinforce one another once the process is started. The child is not responsible for its construction by the adults who have operated on him or her at first but once the abusive deed has done its work, the circularity of the inductions keeps the system stably working.

The description of "schizophrenogenic" mothers and fathers is a classic: "mothers are rejecting, domineering, cold, overprotective, and impervious to the feelings and needs of others and her own children. She depends on the children for her own satisfaction rather than on the father which is regularly evicted, or rendered or chosen impotent. Fathers are unreliable, indifferent and passive. Both may be ridden with delusions of grandeur and persecution and heavy narcissistic problems, and use and induce faulty communication.[27] Piera Aulagnier has shown how the mothers of psychotic individuals are "the Law" and use children only as an extension organ having no self for their own gratification, how they create confusion and prohibition to think and especially a prohibition to think about the prohibition itself, and put themselves as a absolute power and deity for the children.[28] One will readily identify the above traits and the western society features as described by sociologists, the fact of "making the law" being prominent (mother) and taking advantage of the absent or eliminated natural law (father) and using the population as extension organs of satisfaction.

 The great majority of sociologists use oppositions to describe the society. Therefore we shall first expose the features in a dyad-like fashion and discuss this point after.

The Power

The Individual

denial of the other, of the individual as a human other

denial of the other, denial of the power's existence

enslavement and exploitation of the other by an invisible system of enforcement

submissiveness without resistance, blindness, denial of self, passivity

manipulation of mental sets creating confusion, reactions, anaesthesia, and denial of actuality

creating scenes where he is a victim of rejection, of lack of "love", of lack of attention and consideration

manipulation of space-time and order references

confusion of space-time references, difficulty of organization, untidiness, impropriety, unseemliness

manipulation of information, significations and meaning

difficulties of attributing significance and substance to things and events, distorting meaning, constant use of floating meaning

menace of rejection

terror at being rejected (risk of breakdown)

theft of essentials: vitality

lack of vitality, docility, submissive–ness

theft of essentials: empathy (replaced by materialism ideology = living beings thought of as physical machines)

unsafe, constant need for love (contact), attention, care, and reassurance

theft of essentials: privacy, territory (replaced by private property ideology = right to exclude)

excessive thirst for possessions, terror of losing even material goods

fear of being intruded and used

theft of essentials: elementary survival skills (replaced by forced education = narrow tasks usable only in the production-consump–tion system)

poor survival skills, difficulty of learning, little possible investment in the complexity of the world and necessary skill development

theft of essentials: freedom

strong and constant call for dependence and assistance, mostly on a symbiotic basis

theft of essentials: tribal functions (replaced by couple ideology)

no requirements for local group life, search for constant contact with one only (symbiotic like) while also avoiding it

theft of essentials: sex

phallic or hysterical sexuality not reached nor genital orgasm capacity, confuses sex with contact, erotic excitement, and/or release of tensions

theft of essentials: nature

poor or none contact with nature, little or none investment in the outer world

denial of emotion, sentiment, and suffering

absence of reaction and emotional life

denial of emotion, sentiment, and suffering

blunting of reactions and disturbed by emotional episodes

absence of moderation, search for absolute power, gigantism

absence of bounds, of limits of self, of boundary between self and other, absolute need for control of the other (symbiotic like)

mechanization of the individual and of the environment, concretisation of abstractions

city life

mechanical individual, immersed in mental life with little or none body life, absence of investment in living environment

produce and uses drugs

strong call for drugs

deactivation of unwanted individuals, and/or forced suicide of out of control others

penchant for death, already dead, death not important (not much different from living), not yet started to live

deactivation of unwanted individuals, and/or forced suicide of difficult to enslave individuals

slips into death from intolerable suffering or wishes of death when experiencing loss of attention, rejection, or aggression, even minimal (frailty)

complete absence of morals and ethics

turn statements of personal desires into law

absence of inner and outer references, confused, begs for guides and orientation

 

The comparison of the above tables evidences the close correspondence between the ruler-ruled game in the society and the mother-child relationship in early childhood and the creation of disorders, especially at birth and during the bonding process and formation of symbiosis. In a way, this comparison gives credit to the social sciences theory which tends to partition the society and view social events as a dual ruler-ruled or power-subject game. However, a more careful analysis shows that there are more than one type of dual relationships at play at the same time, so that an exclusively dyadic analysis will prove too simplistic and reductive.

Out of many possible dual interaction types, here are a few samples:

indifferent and denying the existence of others

demanding assistance and support

dominating, abusive and destructive

compliant and submissive, but rebellious

inconsistent, disturbing and unrealistic

erratic and fuss making, disorganised

weak, indulgent and without law

antisocial and disturbing, hateful and revengeful

cold, technical and inhuman

docile, mentalised and emotionless

This type of analysis indicates a number of possible interactions between social groups much larger than the simple exploiter-exploited one. One also remarks that the psychotic series type of relationships are dominant, the ones with a more paranoic tendency tending to cluster in the rulers groups and the ones closer to the autistic tendency belonging rather to the ruled groups. The neurotic types (anxiety and emotion based types) are in principle the stronger individuals, but are easily dominated by the brute force exercised by more paranoic characters, therefore being usually the rebellious victims of the more destructive tyrants.

We may infer that the society is not an extraneous hypothetical entity foreign to us and modelling us, but primarily a collectivisation of our unconscious early records and motives which manifest more easily collectively as is known from the laws of group dynamics. The collectivised motives become social customs and in return constrain or pressure the parents through which the new young beings are formed, thus creating a loop type interaction, a fact well illustrated by mythogenesis.

Conclusions

The spread of psychosis and normalising of severe disorders

What is very apparent is that the description of the power-individual relationship in the society is identical to the perinatal mother-child relationship and generally of the psychotic series type. The description of the society by sociologists and the descriptions of schizophrenogenic families by psychiatrists are closely identical. However, a keener look reveals several variations of the dyadic game, identifiable as the autistic- or psychotic- or paranoic series early interaction recordings of various types, in different sectors of the society. The effort to find a unique and common pattern for the society (along the dyadic line) is bound to fail in the view of the obvious collectivisation of several archaic mother-child interaction patterns, not to speak of the more complex child-mother-father-environment interaction at play.

A number of psychologists have stated that the world is turning rapidly psychotic, a fact not confirmed by history and myth full of psychotic motifs although some forms are notably in the increase. Psychotic series issuing from not bonding or early attachment difficulties is not a new construction but tends to expand with the spread of the technical distortion of childbirth and the enticement to bottle feeding. A new form of "psychosis" also tends to spread by the augmentation of the autistic series: formerly very rare and accidental, this form is becoming rapidly common by the use of anticipated caesarean section and chemical anaesthesia during the delivery process. the same technique furthers the psychotic series records by creating new types of attachment difficulties.

The society adapts itself by setting its dynamic equilibrium point so that the more destructive (the more terrorised in fact) rule the more submissive (the more dependent), but also the more naturally and humanly matured since these have less domination needs and do not develop considerable weapons to defend themselves. Adaptation is automatic, the result being only the generalisation of what we do to the children, especially at birth and at separation, and the benefits we rely on later for maintaining an opulent way of life for the dedicated to the industrialised system.

We have seen that the first task of a psychotic (of any series) is to render himself invisible by conforming to the surrounding models. Conversely, the spread of the character creates associations of similar types whose main task is to take themselves as models, so that very soon the dominant type becomes the norm. Normalizing is not a point for the developed man but is very important for the victim of early disorders since it covers the distortions under the veil of the common, pretended to be the "sane" or the "normal". Any pathology of some extent will rapidly become a norm in itself and create a "normopathy". From what we have said, it is not possible to extract only one norm or mean value nor a global model of the society, but there may be as many "norms" as the dominant dyads: if we take as model the society formed of 6 types of dyads, we shall have 12 tiers of normalised disordered individuals.

Man, the only predator of man

The surprise put into evidence by sociologists is the target of the attacks: the root ethological reflexes at all stages of development, but mainly those needed to be triggered at birth and just after where it produces the greatest disaster. One can only wonder at a so well organised and well aimed procedure of destruction: right at the substrate of our functioning, ruining a whole life and cutting all hope of development. Of course, this seems to point an "intelligence" at work behind the scene, and smells of the "old devil" of the Middle Ages. The question then is who is that intelligence behind the scene? and what for?

The reason why man became a predator to himself is unknown. No animal species is a predator of its own species. This antinatural conduct of man is unique in the natural world[29]. It can only be explained if man considers other humans as not belonging to the same species. Or in short: "the other is a nobody". Which means that "other" as a different individual, a person similar to self, and belonging to the same ethological group with shared needs does not exist. Man as a predator of man, city as a predator of natural populations can only be the result of the non-existence of the "other" as a similar being for the mass psyche. This is as we have seen a characteristic of the autistic-psychotic series.

Over population is not an explanation since overpopulation does not happen in the natural world, species regulate their rate of reproduction according to the amount of supply without killing themselves. It is overproduction which produces overpopulation and not the converse. Man can only live in symbiosis with nature but that symbiosis had been destroyed, exactly as has been shattered the symbiosis of the infant with the mother at the dawn of our western societies. Man can only live with the nature as law, but that law has been taken away exactly as has been taken away the tribal father impact on the early life of the child.

All distortion of any part of the environment or of any of the natural procedures of our conception and growth amounts to the destruction of masses of people.

It thus remains to uncover who or what is this hidden predator of man in manmade societies?



[1] We have drawn on summaries and classical studies and also on: Bataille, Georges, La part maudite, Minuit, Paris, F, 1967; Best, Steven, Kellner, Douglas, Postmodern Theory Critical Interrogations, Macmillan, London, GB, 1991; Chesnais, François, La mondialisation financière, Syros, Paris, F, 1996; Debord, Guy, La société du spectacle, et Commentaires sur la société du spectacle, Gallimard-Folio, Paris, 1967; Deleuze, Gilles, Guattari, Félix, L'Anti-Œdipe, Minuit, Paris, F, 1973; Dumont, Louis, Homo Æqualis, Gallimard, Paris, F, 1985; Soares, Flávia Passos, A descartabilidade do humano, Mestrado, UFRJ/COPPE, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BR, 2000; Sokal, Alan, Bricmont, Jean, Fashionable nonsense (in French, Impostures intellectuelles, Odile Jacob 1997).
[2] The amalgam of desire and law is the structure of perversion.
[3] Joseph Campbell has shown that there are two types of countries, those ruled by force, and those ruled by love (respect of others and nature). Countries ruled by authority are portrayed in the myth of the Waste Land, cf. Democracy and Terror, and the Amfortas Wound in Campbell, Joseph, Creative Mythology, Penguin-Arkana, New York, NY, USA, 1991, pp. 373-402.
[4] Note that the territory is also an ethological reflex necessity, although not an imprint as such. Attacks of the need for territory amounts to attack a basic essential ethological program and adds on the psychic disaster already done to earlier imprints.
[5] Soares, op. cit. p. 68.
[6] Debord, op. cit. pp. 104-107. To be compared with Aulagnier, Piera, L'apprenti historien et le maître-sorcier, PUF, Paris, F, 1984, pp. 235-263.
[7] Colborn, Theo, Dumanoski, Dianne, Myers, John Peterson, Our Stolen Future: are We Threatening our Fertility Intelligence and Survival?, Dutton, USA 1996 (in French L'homme en voie de disparition?, Terre Vivante, Mens, F, 1997).
[8] Goodman, Felicitas, Ecstasy, Ritual and Alternate Reality, Indiana University Press, Indianapolis, IN, USA, 1988.
[9] from Debord, cited by Soares, op. cit. p. 93.
[10] Illich, 1978, 1981, cited in Soares, op. cit. pp. 79-81 and Ramos, 1981, cited p. 84.
[11] Debord, cited by Soares, op. cit. p. 69.
[12] Tolerance is the need to have increasingly more of the drug, and dependence is the impossibility to stop the drug without experiencing painful, frightening and even sometimes hazardous reactions.
[13] or dictatorship of the global capital, interview of Milton Santos, Revista Carta Capital, 14/10/1998, p. 54-57.
[14] creation of a world oligopolis of power, Chesnais, op. cit.
[15] Kolakovski, Leszek, The Presence of Myth, $; Lipovetsky, Gilles, L'empire de l'éphémère, Gallimard, 1991; Debord, op. cit.
[16] including bulimia producing drugs and life deactivating drugs.
[17] Toxic Psychiatry, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, USA, 1994'.
[18] Note the absence of any individual or "subject" behind the deed, a characteristic trait of the psychotic series.
[19] Breggin, Peter R., Brain Damage Dementia and Persistent Cognitive Dysfunction Associated With Neuroleptic Drugs: Evidence, Aetiology, Implications, The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 11, -34, 1990, pp. 425-464.
[20] The "patient" (official name) suicides himself in the view of the poor show he has of himself after the "treatment", thus saving the staff from guilt and further masking procedures.
[21] It is done by chemical deactivation of the dopaminergic circuitry projecting to the limbic system and the frontal lobe, and also to the striatum and the reticular system, see Bregging, Peter R., Brain Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry, Springer Publishing Company, New York, NY, USA, 1997, pp. 59 and 61-76. Also relevant is Bregging, Peter R., Talking Back to Prozac, St. Martins's Paperbacks, New York, NY, USA, 1994.
[22] Aulagnier,''op. cit. pp. 235-263. Orwell, George, 1984, Penguin, London, UK, 1990.
[23] Horst Karasek, Rasend das Herz: Chronik eines zu Ende gehenden Lebens, $
[24] Kutchins, Herb, Kirk, Stuart, Making Us Crazy. DSM: The Psychiatric Bible and the Creation of Mental Disorders, The Free Press, New York, NY, USA, 1997. The Holy Inquisition is still active today under the guise of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith directed by Cardinal Ratzinger, from Baigent, Michael, Leigh, Richard, The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception, Corgy Books, London, GB, 1991, pp. 182-193.
[25] Grotstein, James S., The sins of the fathers…: human sacrifice and inter- and trans-generational neurosis/psychosis, Int. J. Psychotherapy, 2, 1, 1997, pp. 11-30; and A response to the challenges… Int. J. Psychotherapy, 2, 2, 1997, pp. 145-148.
[26] Chomsky, Noam, Necessary Illlusions: thought Control in Democratic Societies, $
[27] Carson, Robert C., Butcher, James N., Coleman, James C., Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life, Scott Foresman and Company, Glenview, IL, USA, 1988, pp. 348-353.
[28] Aulagnier, Piera, Un interprète en quête de sens, Payot, Paris, F, 1991, pp. 272-275.
[29] however, not all people, as is shown today by careful anthropological analysis have had this conduct, but only a definite set of people appearing in what is called the nuclear Middle East in the occidental antiquity. On the contrary, many people are now shown to have had a deep respect for others and lived in societies based on ritual exchange and symbiosis with nature.


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