samedi 26 novembre 2016
vendredi 18 novembre 2016
The foetus and coitus
The foetus and coitus
Just as the main function of the foreskin is
autosexuality, in the same way, nature provided woman with a second sexual
organ, external
and meant for pure pleasure, precisely in order to enable the latter during the
period when coitus risks being harmful to the foetus. The latter must not be
bothered, troubled in its sleep. Nothing warrants that coitus might not
terrorize and traumatize it. Being woken up at home by a more or less striking
and violent intrusion, being knocked over, worried by panting and screams and
having to wonder unsuccessfully about what is happening, may be unpleasant and
ill-lived by some, a minority, let us wish, but whose trauma will ruin the
whole existence[1].
So, the extravagant Japanese hara-kiri turned the warlike
failure of supposed braves (what a queer bravery to impose on its close
relations such an atrocious spectacle!) into a homage to the memory of parental
coitus; in the last act of his life, the samurai identifies with his begetter
through shaming violent penetration by the father into his own belly, realizing
a fantasy of inverted oedipus. The syndrome of Koro equally seems to be linked
with a trauma of the prenatal period. Let us report that cutting the fraenulum
of children's tongue is also felt, consciously or unconsciously, as a death threat.
Foetus, do not disturb!
The trauma provoked with the
infant by the sight of parental coitus (cf. Freud, the Wolf-Man), is one of the
great discoveries, now commonly admitted, of psychoanalysis. This trauma
explains numerous psychical or psychosomatic diseases. However, it seems that
there are many more such diseases than infants having had the opportunity to
assist a love scene. The likeliest hypothesis is that the traumatizing love
scenes have not been seen but perceived at foetal age. Freud explains the
Wolf-Man’s constipation (his main psychosomatic symptom) by the pleasure felt
through enemas lived in a rebirth phantasy. Do not the spasms inducing that
constipation find better explanation in the urge to oppose a phantastical
sodomy, dreaded by the child? This interpretation casts a garish light upon the
Wolf-Man’s fantasy of his first appointment with Freud:
".. he
(Freud) is going to take me backwards and shit on my head."
All the
more since the association made by the patient with the tale of the
great-father seems to explain the dream by the intrusion of the father into the
womb. Let us recall that the tale counts the story of a tailor in his shop. A
wolf jumps in. The tailor cuts its tail and the wolf runs away. It is likely
that the tale of the little red hood might also enlighten the dream.
Like the paranoid personality,
the foetus takes for itself what happens around it. The start of the paranoid
episode of the Wolf-Man at the very moment when he sees himself excluded from
Freud’s house, which had become for him a quasi family shelter, takes all its
meaning; not only does the substitute of the father upsets him through sending
him to a physician who clumsily operates his nose (penis) – which dramatically
fulfils the maid's forecast of a wound – but also does he symbolically bar him
out of the way to the mother. The small drop makes the vase overflow.
Psychoanalysis already revealed
with certainty (cf. Françoise Dolto) that the child suffers repercussions from
accidents occurred to the pregnant mother. After the Second World War, the
medical profession lifted the traditional forbidding of coitus during
pregnancy. The multiplication of psychosomatic diseases, notably autism and
asthma, appears to be a direct consequence of that "liberalization";
the percentage of the population likely to become allergic has risen from 10%
in 1950 to 30% in 1990.
For numerous psychosomatic
diseases find their traits in aggressions endured by the foetus. Epilepsy is the
most obvious one since it mimics orgasm through introducing the tongue in the
trachea. Allergy has gained currency. Halpern[2] quotes a
case of anaphylactic shock to sperm; the sensitization would have occurred
inside the uterus through contact with the father’s sperm. Asthma mimics
lovers’ panting breath. The itching of eczema reproduces the friction of sexual
act. Autism seems a rebellion against the unconscious "egoism" of
troublemakers of foetal sleep and the auto-mutilator behaviour of autists may
be a repetition of what they suffered inside the womb, or at its way out (early
cut of the umbilical cord): the experience of suffering associated with
pleasure. The anorexic and compulsive eater seem aping, in a repetitive way,
what they have felt as "great rub" followed by long abstinence. It
can be thought that numerous cases of prematuration are caused by the fact that
the child does what is necessary in order to escape a become inhospitable place
and that the obese take so much room in order to demonstrate that theirs has
been repetitively violated in the beginning of their existence!
Laurence Pernoud[3]
acknowledges that we do not know the consequences of coitus on the foetus.
Some, among whom Françoise Dolto, posit the idea of a positive effect of orgasm
and even of the hormones of pleasure. However, as long as the absence of
possible negative effects has not been demonstrated scientifically, pregnant mums
will be prudent to be content with clitoral orgasm, the only one understandable
by the foetus, taking into account its own practices. If the mother is frigid
particularly, the foetus undergoes coitus like her, without positive effects
but with inconvenience. The foetus is the obliged witness of the sexual life of
its parents; it must not be its victim. During pregnancy, cautious parents will
be content with accompanying it in its autosexuality without taking the risk to
teach it more of it. For many seem to perceive coitus as unbearable trouble,
which the individual will suffer of his whole existence long.
lundi 14 novembre 2016
Traumatized by his circumcision, Leonard Cohen prefers the Twist!
At 9 years old, at his father's death, Leonard performs a neurotic ritual in which he unconsciously takes a symbolical revenge for his circumcision.
“I went to his closet and I found a premade bow tie. I DON'T KNOW WHY I DID THIS,... BUT I CUT ONE OF THE WINGS OF THE BOW TIE OFF and I wrote something on a piece of paper—I think it was some kind of farewell to my father—and I buried it in a little hole in the back yard. And I put that curious note in there. . . . It was just some attraction to a ritual response to an impossible event.”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/leonard-cohen-makes-it-darker
We may also think that his words as an adult: "a ritual response" do not only allude to the impossible event" of his dad's death, but also to that of the ritual crime. All the more since, according to his poem Takanawa prince hotel, Cohen seems to be opposed to circumcision:
https://books.google.fr/books?id=ZSbiAXUaf34C&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=Takanawa+Prince+Hotel+cohen&source=bl&ots=r8Ss-tk3ND&sig=dCG18wZsV4LPsCb5vETUO2B0pMs&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiS6aSmk7fQAhXGPxQKHZYoBRwQ6AEIPDAD#v=onepage&q=Takanawa%20Prince%20Hotel%20cohen&f=false
Traumatisé par sa circoncision, Leonard Cohen préfère le Twist !
A 9 ans, a décès de son père, Leonard met en scène un rituel névrotique dans lequel, inconsciemment, il se venge symboliquement de sa circoncision. J'ouvris son armoire et trouvai un noeud-papillon. JE NE SAIS PAS POURQUOI JE FIS CELA,... MAIS JE COUPAI L'UNE DES DEUX AILES DU NOEUD-PAPILLON et écrivis quelque chose sur un bout de papier - je crois que ce fut une sorte d'adieu à mon père - et je l'enterrai dans un petit trou dans la cour arrière. Et j'y plaçai cette curieuse note... Ce ne fut qu'un espèce d'engouement pour une réponse rituelle à un événement impossible."
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/leonard-cohen-makes-it-darker
On peut aussi penser que les termes de Cohen adulte : "réponse rituelle" ne font pas seulement allusion à l' "événement impossible" de la mort de son père, mais aussi à celui du crime rituel. Cela d'autant plus que, d'après son poème Takanawa prince hotel, Cohen semble être un adversaire de la circoncision :
https://books.google.fr/books?id=ZSbiAXUaf34C&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=Takanawa+Prince+Hotel+cohen&source=bl&ots=r8Ss-tk3ND&sig=dCG18wZsV4LPsCb5vETUO2B0pMs&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiS6aSmk7fQAhXGPxQKHZYoBRwQ6AEIPDAD#v=onepage&q=Takanawa%20Prince%20Hotel%20cohen&f=false
dimanche 13 novembre 2016
University (Roudinesco, Paris 7, and Attias, EPHE) against circumcision, but not too much!
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University (Roudinesco and Attias) against circumcision, but not too much!
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The Lacanians (Caroline Eliacheff and Lacan) against Freud and the Council of Europe on circumcision
University (Roudinesco and Attias) against circumcision, but not too much!
Related article:
The Lacanians (Caroline Eliacheff and Lacan) against Freud and the Council of Europe on circumcision
vendredi 4 novembre 2016
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