Philosopyc and Totalitarian
System
Dr Compan
President SFPI
Societe Francaise de Psychologie Individuelle
For Hannah ARENDT, the totalitarian
systems are characterised by a fundamental rule:
Everything is possible, Every thing is permitted. We can add
: ´ To take the place of the other while using the perverse
strategies of the political police in totalitarians systems.
The pathological disorganisation of a family, leads to the
transgression of differences and interdiction ,and therefore
to the lack of rules.
How can a family or a society end up with this result?
Roger CAILLOIS, and René GIRARD, show us how primitives
societies protect themselves from internal tensions, by
having recourse to orgies and sacrifices:
Orgy : all the food and sexual taboos are transgressed
Sacrifice†: all the violence is directed at an expiatory
victim.
- Training of the actors.
Applying of I.P, at the hospital, has enabled us to
elaborate working hypotheses useful ,which can explain how
the actors are trained. In a system which privileges the
man, the woman will have a tendency to prefer a son .By
reaction the daughter grow closer to her father and
idealised him, as†:
Father-protector for her
Father-persecutor for the bad mother, and when she will
become an adult, she will experience her children, as
children of the protector, or ,persecutor, like Rosemary's
baby, Raskolnikov, Staline, or Hitler.
You can consult on our site,http://www.adler.net1.fr,the
article to the
meeting FrancNorthAfrican, at nice 2002, « The child of god,
the child of the devil »
- Rules of the Game
A child is born in a family, organised by a system of
kinship, with†:
-Differences†: of generation, sex, and sib ship
-Taboos†: from cannibalism, incest, murder
In a family, preference for a child will favour the game of
alliances, and will permit someone, to take the place of the
preferred child, or to be preferred, by the other parent†.
Progressively, after several generations the alliances will
produce transgressions of differences and taboos, which
characterised the pathological family.
-Pathological family.
The pathological families we see , use games of
alliances/transgression, like a new norm. The adult treats
his children as if they were perverts having all the vices.
Seduction or violence are means of eliminating these rivals
and taking their place. But child are not polymorph pervert
as Freud thought. The child is a rival in the unconscious of
the parents, and learn rules of alliances/transgression
game, in his family. as a victim .Later he try to use these
rule as a persecutor, if nobody teach him how to escape this
system. For example, a
young mother dream, that her little daughter of two months,
comes in the bed of her parents, at night, to have sexual
relations with her father. Of course, TIRESISA, would have
dissuaded this mother to have a girl, as he did it for LAIOS.
But to day, this mother has a young daughter of five, who’s
happy and blooming, with her parents.
-Totalitarian system
In a totalitarian system, the society is atomised,
individuals become rivals. Each one seeks to eliminate his
enemy by prevention, by anticipating who might want to take
his place. In the play by Eugene O’Neil, †ªElectra†ª, the
mother
(Christine/Clytemnestre)says to her daudther†:
« I survey you, ever since you were very small...You want to
be the wife
or your father, the mother of your brother....you want to
take my place† »
In this play we see also (ORIN/ORESTE)the son and (Brant/Egiste),the
nephew, ready to take the place of mammon their father, and
uncle.
When TIRESIAS announces to Oedipus that he could be
responsible for the epidemic which hit Thebes, Oedipus
begins to thinks that it is a manoeuvre of Creon, his
brother in law, to eliminate him and make him lose his
throne. It’i also to eliminate his son/rival that Laios
decided to eliminate Oedipus, at his birth.
The story of the roman Empire is even more evocative. Julius
Cesar is eliminated by a son. Nero will have his mother
assassinated.
The story of Dora's case, is an illustration of the
alliances/transgressions games. While Freud ask what is
Dora's desire, we can see, that Dora is invited to
participate, in alliances games, that her father practice
with the K.family. To reconquer her father,Dora doesn't have
the same arms as Mrs K. She can't get rid of MrsK like she
had done with the nurse.Dora must transgress the taboos of
incest, with her
father, or of crime, with MrsK, to dominate in her family.
** (See :Dora’s case in :http://www.adler.net1.fr)
In the totalitarian system, the enemy is eliminated by
prevention .Progressively each one become at the same time
,torturer and victim, as we note in pathological families.
The mistreating parent was often a mistreated child.
Several clinical examples that you can verify in your
practice, if you are a clinician, can specify this attitude:
-A young mother, who has been incested by her step father,
can't tolerate
her daughter who has just been born.
-In the course of a puerperal psychosis, a young woman
threatens to kill her second son. She fear that at adult
age, he 'd kill his older brother, repeating, in this way,
the story of Cain and Abel.
The alliances /transgressions games which are practiced in
the family, can also be practiced in political circles, and
become a norm in the totalitarian system. Dictatorship is
not an organisation foreign to social group
A mother who drowns her newborn, has a psychotic behaviour.
A dictator who set up a totalitarian system, finds a
foothold with a psychotic societe.
We are used to see illness, like an aggression which allies
the body, and spirit of an individual. The totalitarian
system, as pathological family, oblige us also to consider
the pathology as a pathology of a social group, as we can
observed in the sects.
Totalitarian systems are set up by adults trained in
alliances / transgressions games, that they impose like a
norm in a pathological society, when the whole society
reaches a critical threshold, favoured by a context of
economic crisis.
The logic of totalitarian systems it’s the logic of families
disorganised by games of alliances/transgressions, which
feed a collective psychosis. It is this logic of the
disorganisation, of the group social, and familial, that SFPI, allows us to understand in order to envisage
prevention.
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