It condemned Hamas and deployed psychoanalytic theory — splitting, projection, the death instinct — to pathologize Palestinian resistance as “the unrestrained release of the death instinct.”
Ah yes, when brown people try to resist oppression it’s an “unrestrained release of the death instinct”. But, apparently, when Israelis murder, rape, and torture innocent civilians lifelessly it’s “the IPA is subject to legal and regulatory constraints that limit its ability to make political statements”. I wonder why…
Twenty days into Israel’s assault, after thousands of Palestinians had already been killed, IPA President Harriet Wolfe acknowledged the suffering of “non-terrorist Palestinians."
I hope these people burn in the deepest depths of hell
Their resistance is a sign of mental illness. The normal thing would be to just sit still, and let Israel bomb them to smithereens. Got it.
freuds all bullshit in the first place isn’t it? if I remember right that all the
dianeticspsychoanalytics stuff?Controversial, but freud is more outdated than bullshit. And that’s true of a lot of science from the 19th-20th century. His methods and conclusions don’t hold up to modern standards, but he wasn’t just making shit up whole-cloth, he was trying to make sense of his thousands of hours of experience working with people. The field of psychoanalysis evolved substantially during his career and even more in the century after.
And while a lot of the reaction against 20th century psychoanalysis/psychology is justified, a good portion of it is also driven by health insurance profit seeking that wants to see the mind as a simple mechanism with curable pathologies. “You exhibit symptom x, which means you have illness y, which means we’ll pay for treatment z.”
Whereas in reality most mental/emotional experiences are multifaceted and layered. The former works fine for a broken bone or a viral infection, but not so well for CPTSD or personality disorders. I think psychoanalysis can be useful as a modality that exists alongside other modalities like CBT.
My internet poisoned brain cannot read CBT as anything other than cock and ball torture.
Critical Balls Theory
A major issue I have with Freud , is that he used his gifts and talents to help cover up and deny childhood sexual abuse he discovered in many of his patients. At first he supported their assertions. Then spent the rest of his life making a theoretical framework that denied rape was common.
Some people have speculated this turn of events happened after he started to sexually assault his young son.
Doesn’t really matter as far as material support type stuff goes, even if it’s all horseshit it has a lot of currency and influence.
