Terrorism and circumcision; circumcised
first, then fanaticized
(psychoanalysis of terrorism - circumcision
makes men weapons of war)
(français : Terrorisme
et circoncision ; circoncis d'abord, fanatisés ensuite (psychanalyse du
terrorisme))
I
– Terrorised children
"A
thanatophilia compulsion prevails in cultural anti-ethical customs, such as
genital mutilation of children and adolescents." Moisés Tractenberg
(lecture in the 11th symposium of NOCIRC, 2010)
"Every
act of sexual penetration, whatever its nature, committed upon the person of
the other through violence,… is a rape." Art 222-23 of the French criminal code
"The
fact that you do not remember does not mean that you are not invaded by a
traumatic memory." Muriel Salmona
For
the child treated as a pure object, circumcision is an experience of violence,
pain, terror, abandonment and powerlessness, to an extreme degree[1], [2].
"Sexual
violence is, with torture, what causes the most psychotraumatic
disorders."
Muriel
Salmona
"Children
hurt in their integrity do not stop loving their parents. They stop loving
themselves." Jesper Juul
"The
most important breeding ground for all future violence is violence to
children."
Muriel
Salmona
Sexual mutilation (excision and
circumcision) is the worst form of the black pedagogy that puts the child under
terror (cf.
Alice Miller). If most societies censure, to varying
degrees, juvenile sexuality (autosexuality and premarital sexuality), a few, in
order to ban it, go as far as sexual mutilation, which,
from the child's point of view, is a mass terrorist attack, with torture in
addition.
Sexual mutilation was born in the
ruling classes (rich enough to afford polygamy) of some primitive civilizations.
The matter was avoiding incest through setting up an unconscious terror: the
anguish of castration (exclusion and death). Indeed, under the family roof,
grown-up sons lived together with their father’s young spouses, mixed with the
eldest’s daughters. All-powerful
fathers easily imposed the circumcision of their sons, a cruel warning (a
threat of total castration in the case of transgression). In several societies,
old spouses gained the daughters’ excision, a revolting destruction. The commercial
argument: a deflowered girl is unmarriageable, hushed up all leanings of
resistance. An unspeakable covenant of jealous adults was established between
mothers and fathers, reducing children into quasi-slavery. The most virtuous
societies escaped that contagious scourge. In some others, unable to make order
prevail, parents had recourse to that equilibrium through terror. Later on,
sorcerers and religious invented "founding" myths to give the thing a
cultural and moral basis. That crazy pseudo-ethical pretence is that of a moral
order[3] worse
than that of fascism, artificially racist since discriminating the
"non-mutilated" as lechers.
A second powerful motivation
joined itself to the first: submission of the youth through terror, of such
efficacy that those millennial customs are now solidly settled. They have
become second nature, extremely hard to eradicate. Even when polygamy, out of
necessity, tends to disappear, the universal taboo on autosexuality impedes to
end with them.
Sexual
mutilation is not the only form of adult terrorism against the child: humiliations
of wanton authoritarianism, repression (forbidding and scorn) of infantile and
premarital sexuality, slaps, smacking, blows, threats of castration, provoke as
many traumas disturbing health and human relationships. That violence teaches
the child the reason of the strongest and the ban on pleasure, sexual
mutilation is its worst form. Originally a morbid safeguard against incest, it
is not an accepted submission but a destroying and humiliating violence founded
on lie, quick pardoned to irresponsible adults by trustful and loving children.
II
– Terrorist children
"Fanaticism is a monster that dares calling itself the son of
religion." Voltaire
The compulsion to excise or
circumcise (and sometimes to cut off members or heads) observed by psychiatry in
the victims of sexual mutilation, is the slightest consequence of the
phenomenon. A famous example of it was King Saul’s behest towards David in
order for him to gain his daughter’s hand: a-hundred-enemies’ foreskins (1 Sam,
18: 25-27). In history, circumcision was often a torture for defeated enemies (English prisoners of the Moguls, German
prisoners of the Hereros in Namibia, Serbs circumcised by Muslims during the
war in ex-Yugoslavia, etc…). In December 2000, 800 Moluccan
Christians suffered forced "Islamization", including sexual mutilation
of both sexes. In Kenya, at the beginning of 2008, the
Kikuyus would circumcise the Luos in the middle of the streets out of political
retaliation[4]
[5] [6]. In
2015, in Mosul, Daesh massively excised and circumcised the Yazidis.
September 2001 attacks in New
York were only one example of the circumcised's warlike and suicidal tendencies:
record rate of criminality and rape in the USA, the immoderate excess of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, relentlessness against Viet-Nam, unceasing wars and slaughters
in Africa and the Middle-East. Between the slaughter of eleven Israeli Olympic
team members in Munich (1972) and the attacks of Brussels, Orlando, Istanbul, Bagdad
and Nice (2016), by way of those of Copernic (Paris, 1980), rue des rosiers (Paris,
1982), Saint Michel (Paris, 1995), Russia (1994-2005), Bali (2002), Madrid
(2004), London (2005), Boston (2013), the Thalys train, Tunis, Paris, Bamako, Garissa
(2015), without counting the innumerable ones committed in the Middle-East,
Africa and in… American universities(!) nor the numerous thwarted ones,
the quasi-totality of terrorist attacks have been committed by circumcised men,
the most often in reaction to the permanent attack of the presence of circumcised
invaders in Palestine. Circumcision is an invasive procedure; the circumcised
will be invaders. Like the invasion of Palestine, those assaults are
symptomatic of the blind thirst for revenge and megalomaniac paranoia of allegedly
grown-up children.
The discourse of the terrorist of
the Thalys attack sadly revealed his circumcision trauma; his nonsensical
request "Give back my gun!" refers to the castration of the foreskin,
deeply buried in the unconscious of the poor man. It is illustrated by the
image below that relates a true story, occurred in Morocco:
Circumcision deeply affects the relationship
to women. The high rate of rape, domination and sometimes hate of women
("honour" crimes, etc.) with the circumcised are due to an
unconscious thirst for vengeance against mothers who let their boys be mutilated[7].
In a survey[8]
bearing upon 546 of their circumcised patients aged between 20 and 60, American
psychologists and psychiatrists observed: anger, rage, sense of loss, shame,
sense of having been victimized and mutilated, low self-esteem, fear, distrust,
and grief, relationship difficulties, sexual anxieties, depression, reduced
emotional expression, avoidance of intimacy.
The use of rape as a weapon of
war (RDC, Boko Haram, Isis…) is one of the most monstrous forms of the
(unconscious) vengeance against circumcision. Collective rape and touching
(Köln) – associated with stealing – and rape in the presence of the relatives
are the most outrageous; those rapes unconsciously reproduce the conditions of
perpetration of the circumcision crime where the presence of the whole
community violates the dignity and modesty of the child. During group rape,
laughter and songs reproduce those of the "festivities" of circumcision.
In war rape, the issue is not so much to kill women, shot after use, than
mothers, traitors who allowed the circumcision crime. Circumcision is a matter of power, war rape also, and very particularly.
III
The psychoanalytical explanation:
repetition
of the trauma: blind rage and re-enactment
For young people treated as pure
objects, sexual mutilation is an experience of violence, pain, terror,
abandonment and powerlessness, to an extreme degree[9],
[10].
The body loss and the implicit threat of
castration aggravated by a beginning of realization[11],
[12], [13], and thus death threat
since, for the unconscious, the part equals the whole, create
a terrible trauma[14], [15], [16], [17],
[18],
[19], [20].
Particularly likely since there is partial
castration (beginning of castration), that threat is liable to destabilize
the individual in the long term (PTSD). The most important is that that castration
bears upon the organ of pleasure. The outcome is the reproduction, exacerbated
and compulsive, of the parental and societal ban on pleasure.
So, the Islamist assaults do not
make their victims anywhere and do not target anything. They systematically
occur in places of pleasure, leisure and encounter: beaches, hotels, bars,
night-clubs, pleasures of sport (stadiums), pleasures of food (markets),
spiritual pleasures (mosques, churches), intellectual pleasures (schools,
universities, libraries), pleasures of music (concert venues), marginal
pleasures (homophiles). The compulsion
to destroy the aesthetic and cultural heritage: works of art, statues,
archaeological sites, museums, libraries, churches, mosques, etc., discloses
the unconscious trauma provoked by circumcision in the open air. Attacking
precious objects achieves a vivid metaphor of circumcision. The paradigm of
that compulsion lies in the suicide of the terrorists, which repeats their own
circumcision.
As early as 1930, in two similar
letters to Chaim Choffler and Einstein, Sigmund Freud denounced the
responsibility of the Zionist colonialism, fanaticism and racism, in the
radicalization of Muslims:
"I notice with regret that
the unrealistic fanaticism of our people is partly responsible for the arousing
of Arabs’ distrust. I can muster no sympathy whatever for the misguided piety
that makes a national religion from the remains of the wall of Herod, so
challenging the feelings of the local natives..."
He omitted to mention
that the psychological consequences of circumcision make both fanaticisms particularly
venomous, as racist the one as the other.
The psychohistorian Marc-André
Cotton writes:
"Powerless for directing his
legitimate rage against his own father who imposed a violent assault to his
integrity, the young man might engage in risky behaviour without understanding
the reason."[21]
The psychoanalyst Moisés Tractenberg gave a brilliant formulation
of the link between violence and circumcision:
"Another
psychological consequence of
early circumcision is that it imprints an aggressive and traumatic situation
onto the mind of the new-born… The impossibility of processing 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."[22]
His explanation
accounts for suicidal terrorism that mingles extreme
sadism
and extreme masochism. However, that explanation is
psychological or psychiatric.
The psychoanalytical explanation
of the circumcised's high propensity to genocide, war, and terrorism is simple,
it is that of the mechanism of the unconscious that equates the whole and the
part, so that the loss of the foreskin and the related threat of castration
become a strong unconscious motivation for murder and mass murder (notably
those committed on American campuses). The psychoanalyst Tobie Nathan who
compares initiation through circumcision to Nazi initiation and affirms that
initiation by sadism is initiation to barbarity has illustrated it:
"Himmler ignored his
nourishing sadistic drives, the initiation he received in the corps of the SS
revealed it to him... The combination of these three levels (isolated emotion,
and its ability to trigger perplexity, the
attack against strongly invested parts of the body and its ability to trigger
"anguish of castration", the paradoxical statements and their
ability to trigger confusion) is essential to the expulsion of a subject from
her or his envelope of meaning." [23]
So,
we can complete Barack Obama's words by saying: routine circumcision, "routine
killing". The banality of the evil of circumcision explains the banality
of attacks, wars, and genocides committed by and against circumciseds; the quasi-totality
of genocides are perpetrated in the presence of circumcision on one side or the
other[24]. Of
course, only a small minority of the circumcised population is traumatized to
the point of becoming terrorist but it
is enough with a very small percentage of gravely-traumatized to make thousands
of terrorists and, in extreme circumstances, their violence may become contagious.
The paranoid compulsion explains
the warlike temper of sexually mutilated peoples and their neighbours, sometimes
pushed to the extremes of terrorism and piracy, driven to the worst when it is
exerted "in the name of God". By favouring submission to the established
order and hyper-aggressiveness to defend it, circumcision gives an extremely
powerful spring to endlessly renewed tribal wars. It makes the fortunes of arm
dealers and gun merchants.
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