The End of the last Empire

Part 2

This introduction is meant to pave the way for psychoanalysis to contribute to a political scene that does not make sense, as psychoneurotic symptoms and conditions do and are. The European countries who ruled, exploited, and exhausted their potentials beyond the limits of existence-like the Greek, Romans, Babylonians, Inka people did before- are now showing all the signs of a dying empire. It started with the end of the Second World War and the liberation of Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, some smaller changes in the Karibian Islands too. But the most demonstrative of all these changes is the migrations of people of the old empire to the source countries of that empire. Even in its small margins it says that 'the world is no longer divided into master\slave, white\black, poor\rich etc.' One of the most perceptive books of late is entitled: The World is Flate (By: Thomas Friedman). Flattening the world is not fully done yet, and the Ukraine War attests to a foolishly stubborn Europe to hold on to its passee fictitious sense of superiority. That has proven to "always" be achieved by choosing an old inferior adversary who has become an equal to treat as a failure in progressing and catching up with civility....Russia, China.  

 

        Social matters affect the individual more than parental influence does. There is also the group meaning of certain issues like religion and morality which get additional psychological importance within their social context. That is the reason psychoanalysis should find a place in social sciences. That means psychoanalysts should bring out its method of thinking and not to twist other ways of thinking to fit psychoanalysis. Few postings before I dealt in a limited way with some psychodynamics in social contexts; like the psychodynamics of group hate, projection, self-deception, and how they will be the fabric and background of the way the Ukraine Issue will be understood and managed. I anticipated what would happen if the politicians did not open their eyes to see the danger of the ideas the media will promote. I also underlined the effect of just two European politicians (Ursula van Der Leyen!!) and Stoltenberg!!?) who occupy especially important political position, like Manager of NATO and president of the European Union. I made that an issue because it was obvious the Ukraine, that small peaceful country had been foolishly and maliciously tricked into believing what those two pompous idiotic politicians were advocating... joining the EU and NATO. 

According to the rules of the European Union and NATO itself the Ukraine could not become member of those two organizations without first getting the approval of the 24 current members. Those two politicians were calling for something that would take three or four years to happen and could fail as it did with Turikia. Those two people simply do not care about the Ukraine; the just think again of European (our). The point I am making is that China, Eastern Europe, few countries in South America, some others in different parts of the world are more advanced than Western Europe for it to claim its superiority and relying on demeaning others to feel superior and not getting better than others to feel deserving.

This is not the issue of this post but just a reminder that psychoanalysis is vey much needed at this time of 'a ridiculous war', to expose the childishness of some European politicians who hold important position in that organization. The issue is not to ignore that social psychology and group psychology are the subject and object of development and evolution (getting better in goodness or badness too). The trick is what psychoanalytic principles could guide the thinker in understanding social evolution. As a psychoanalyst I will consider group-hate, projection, negation, denial, changes in fixed repressed ideas or believes, expressing suppressed unconscious thought as thoughts of common knowledge, all that as the new wrap of social development and evolution. Those are our legitimate field of study. I will treat the current events that are proclaimed old or suppressed realities as manifestations of upcoming major social and political changes that we should expect to happen and prepare to deal with.       

        The basic undeniable fact is that everything we deal with in life is in a state of change and evolution, as our own minds also change with that. Thus, resistance to change and stopping things from evolving creates illusions that we can go back to the past to understand the present and the future. Someone like me that has lived long to remember what happened between the east and the west, the socialists and the capitalists, Russia and the West, (from Stalin to Putin and from Eisenhauer to Lesinski), I Can see the backwardness in even the vocabulary of propaganda and anti-propaganda. The main point is what will be a test to acknowledging social evolution and change; so, from food gatherers to food manufacturing and from the temporary family of males and females to Empires that kept evolving for centuries (Greek, Mongol, Assarian, Babylonian, Roman.,etc.... ). We reached the end of the last empire in known history: the European Civilization or the European Empire   

       One of the most perceptive books of late is entitled: The World is Flate (By: Thomas Friedman). Flattening the world is not fully done yet, and the Ukraine War attests to a foolishly stubborn Europe holding on to its passee fictitious sense of superiority. That has proven to "always" be achieved by choosing an old inferior adversary who has become an equal, to treat as a failure in progressing and catching up with civility. This is the seat of what we call projection because the issue at hand is not the other but the self. What the media is fabricating about US to distract from the truth [ known to the enemy as well as to people but is kept from the spectators and the donners]. It is puzzling that Russia the barbarian, savage, backward, dictatorship has changed politically and let go of colonizing its previous east European allies, while the civilized west is still countries to the what looks like the old Wasow Alliance.

The falling Western Empire is revealing the core nature of its people: relied on demeaning others to feel superior and not getting better than others to feel deserving.

Spingler was of the opinion that civilizations along with their political structures move from east to west. Even though if there were important details that could undermine this brilliant idea at least the merit telling us a lot about the Ukranian War and the obsessive compulsive hate of Russia and hoping for the dying Empires of Russia and China.   

Psychoanalysts have a great deal to say about some social phenomena because they share similar psychodynamics. I wrote few posts about the psychodynamics of group hate, projection, self-deception, and how they will be the fabric and background of the way the Ukraine Issue will be understood and managed.

        The end of the European empire and its death is unique, but that is normal because each empire is part of a whole and a point in an ingoing process. What is unique-in my view- is that the coming empire will start as a world empire not a national empire. Therefor, analysts should consider that when they get into professional debates in the future.