A Plea to My Colleagues the Psychoanalysis.

It is difficult to accept being disliked. It is more difficult to accept being disliked because you are wrongly accused of being wrong. Worse of all is to be right but just because you are disliked you are deemed to be wrong. I am not talking about myself, but about Putin!!

Putin is disliked and even hated for having been KJB. It is not unusual to assume that secret services-of all countries do bad things as part of their daily work, therefore a Russian KJB must have don bad things, and Putin is hated for that too. But when the situation in the Ukraine is related to one person and its history and background are summarized and explained by one person’s psychology, we should then question our judgement. Few days ago, I pointed out that psychologizing history is a temptation we should resist. The result of psychologizing the present crisis is obvious: instead of asking “who is Putin” we are now we are asking the most naïve answer to another question; “what is Putin?”. Do you see the difference in the answer to those two questions? One is inquisitive and the other affirmative.

What is happening now started in 1945, just after defeating Germany in the war. As Churchill said ‘we must drop an iron curtain between us and the communists to stop them from affecting our countries’. A NATO was born to face the allies of yesterday. Psychologizing social and political phenomena is a European Disease since the fall of the Roman empire. If it was not Catholic versus Protestant it will be Anglo Saxon versus Slaves or Germanics, etc. And now it is between NATO and NOT NATO.

My plea to my colleagues is to forget for a year or two the issue of the training analyst, join forces with other human science professional a stand against psychologizing the real, facts, and deal with what is true in our daily life. We are on the verge of madness, and we should never stop reminding ourselves that whatever our specialization we are human scientists.

 2. Language and its Deceptive Power:

        All livening creatures communicate with their peers somehow and in some way. Most of the time we humans do not know how the communication between all those creatures  happen (changing places in a flying flock of migrating birds) without language. Humans are the only creatures which communicate through language. Among the inherent characteristics of language is the power of adjectives to replace the signified object. This characteristic is very common in human sociology. A person is typified as such and such.  Typifying psychologizes the object, i.e., “this man committed a crime” soon after, a characterization of that person as a criminal appears and is followed by several derivatives of the adjective criminal. The characterizations become the person himself and he becomes an open filed for psychological speculations. Yasser Arafat had characterizations to each of his adversaries, and his claim to fame was having a war against some those Jewish characterization. He was-thus- not fighting for a cause but fighting for principles. He even catheterized himself as a warier. 

    This is what is happening now in Europe: Western Europe is not fighting for expanding NATO to stop an indirect threat of the Russians. It is fighting for a cause (our Western values). How did that danger come about now and Why?? I dare not say, because Europe is now younger in age, its old bloody history is not part of its memory, a group of inexperienced and seriously ignorant young politicians are taking charge of the  blossoming new Europe and it is Hard to say it thanks to the atomic bomb there will not a chance for those (idiots) to drag us in a third world war.  

    Psychologizing and moralizing the problem is pathetic and  makes the politicians who raise the banner of morality the new danger that reminds of the beginning of Nazism. Morality and values and OUR this and OUR that are not issues in this centry because they  were wrong then and are still wrong now. Our Western Values versus their !!!values, and Their Morality and Our Morality is a prescription for disasters even though it is not atomic(we Hope). The pond that could reflect the Images of Millions of Narcissistic idiots exists in all of us. The only serious difficulty in dealing with narcissism is the healers of narcissism could be narcissistic too.

Are we serious about what is happening now or are the young inexperience politicians of today repeating the stupidities of Yasser Arafat ? I am afraid that history-sometimes- repeats itself with very small changes.

 Psychologizing Hate and the Present Political Crisis.

I start by saying that the present international political crisis is useless to discuss because it is crisis caused by the nonexistence of definitive distinctions between Facts, Reality, and Truth. The absence of those distinctions is intentional and not accidental. The intention to one day Ukrainia would join NATO was there for many years, and a year and a half ago it was whispered as an invitation to join the European trade market. This subtle invitation created high aspirations in the Ukrainian you people (one was elated and saying yes, we want to be Europiean). But..but according to joining the European market the country joining has to become a NATO country. It means NATO would be in physical proximity on the border of Russia. There is a catch to this issue: Up till Merkel retirement the notion of expanding NATO beyond its present boundaries was not even considered worth public denial. But now a sixty year old unbalances Ursula von ben Leaden) and six feet tall conceit (     ) feel that the time has come when they should rule the European Union and not hesitate to deviate from what () called “Our Values”.  Our Values is an American catchphrase and not European.

Here comes Putin: quite intelligent, highly informed about modern politics, professionally he learned to analyze politicians and their perceptions and personality. He knew that the issue of NATO will be back when the old, experienced politicians will go. He has the wisdom of not having NATO directly on the borders of Russia and better to have a buffer zone. Yet, the novel inexperienced European politicians had no experience to make the distinctions between facts, reality, and truth. The fact is that Russia will not allow NATO to go beyond certain limits. The reality is that Europe will not expose itself and the world to an atomic war. The truth is that Putin is reacting and not initiating a crisis. What would those politicians do: discredit Putin, psychologize the crisis so the attention moves from the reality of the issue to some psychical verbiage, and could soak themselves in the luxury of mixing hate with love, fantasy with more fantasy, and best of all exercise power in their imagination.

Watching the desperation in the west to ward off reality, failing to come up with something veritable, brings to my mind Yesser Arafat (died in20120). He is a Palestinian leader of an organization that assumed the function and responsibility to stop Israel from setting roots in Palestine. He Psychologized himself and his movement, thus when they died they still died as heroes!!