Back to Politics:

There are two points to underline in the previous posting about the emergence of the Other and Narcissism. The emergence of the other, which is both inevitable and unavoidable, whatever the success or failure of that process, it creates the duality of the subject ,i.e., the narcissistic stance and conditions for ‘psychopathology’. Psychopathology emerges from the possibilities of establishing nonsensical cause\effect dualities of the I\Me. In other terms, the presence of the other creates the duality of I and Me which has many possibilities of I,s and of Me,s. Therefore, narcissism of I am Me relation could be affected by the other and his or her role in allowing or disallowing a comfortable I am is that me person.  The possibility of inexactitude of I am Me is the basis of the pathological psychological conditions.

The manifestations of those inexactitudes are always, always , accompanied by a need to have a similar person to lower the sense of estrangement and anxiety. This is the seat and the root of social narcissisms. In situation where narcissism is socially threatened (we are not what we thought we are, whether  positively and negatively). The society becomes less unified, and flare-ups of patriotism that looks back for times of prosperity dominate the suffering nation. The Arab world is still looking for an old glory to adopt after the fall of the Ottoman empire. Social Narcissism is  different from personal narcissism because it does not deal with I-m but with they-me. The situation in the Ukraine demonstrates well this point manifested in the yearning for a union with Europe .

It started with a wakeup call that they are not west Europeans like the rest who are members of the European Union and of NATO. This was a narcissistic blow not because the Ukrainians were feeling any different from the rest of the Europeans but because the Two Idiotic Politicians who caused all this mess presented it to the Ukrainians in a narcissistic formulation….You are not what you think you are, you are not a democracy, and do not have the European values that we cherish. The European mirror did not reflect to that unfortunate country the beautiful image of Western Europeans. On the contrary it reflected the image of the old members of the Soviet Union (Which does not exist anymore).

It is interesting or rather curios that the West Europeans knew well that this is not the case anymore. Yet, the USA is still in war with communism which does not exist anywhere and still believes that it is  defending the liberated European democracies that have-now- more elaborate democracies than the USA’s democracy and still functions politically as their patron. Therefore, we can say that the Ukrainian war was only justified to boost the narcissism of some warped politicians who stimulated the group narcissism of a sleeping nation. That nation or the Ukraine was looking for a boast to its narcissism due to narcissistic hurts caused by internal discomfort. protectiveness of the Ukraine is to the USA a reminder of its great work to stop the Russian expansion in Western Europe after the second world war.

 Forwards to Psychoanalysis:

Politics is the link between a person (politician) and a nation either undergoing a drastic identity change or looking for one. The politicians are misguiding leaders or misguided political ideologists. In both cases there is a gap between the society and its presumed thinkers. I must take you back three or four years to an event that explains things well.

In 2020 there was an event on the T.V. called the George Floyd case.  In the openness of the street and in day light a white police officer had his knee on the neck of a black man who was laying on the ground unable to move or to breath. People, black and whites, were standing there watching and taking pictures. No one in the spectators call an ambulance or the Police?!!!?The black man eventually died.

I, and many others, watched an old scene of two three hundred years ago being reenacted in 2020.  What came to my mind is the return of the repressed. In psychoanalysis we sometimes witness things that were repressed and got activated in its way to consciousness creating old scenes. A good example is getting severe physical and emotional anxiety being questioned by a senior authority. I published a post warning of the return of the repressed and sure enough what the USA is presently dealing with politically and even materially is return of the repressed past.

Could the Ukraine war be a return of the repressed! Yes, and very much so. The Ukraine war seems to be a direct result of misjudgment of two mediocre public employees of the European Union and        Those kind of mistakes are common everywhen but the ones that make the difference are the ones that reveal a historical moment that has ripened up and just needs to be activated. The need to unite Europe to resist its pending decline and dissipation. The first world war was triggered by the assassination of an insignificant prince but was justification to end a monarchy so Europe advances to a higher level of political structure: no Royalties but political parties. The second war was bring the USA (as part of the declining European Empire thus it brought all nations in one Universal war (Europe, China, Japan, etc.). Better to say: the second world war was so worldwide that made us not pay attention and realize not realize that that it had a salient objective be achieved: no Nationalistic, Racial, Territorial, Geographic separation but we are all in one world.

We are now in that state of affairs except in the USA and few other small countries in the middle east and Africa.