jueves, 14 de febrero de 2013

Circumcision, a dangerous collective madness, Michel Hervé Bertaux-Navoiseau


 Eustache Le Sueur.   Alexander and his doctor, Eustache Le Sueur,



(from an individual psychosis to collective psychosis,
psychiatry, psychoanalysis and circumcision)

  
             Excision and circumcision rank amongst individual or collective (cult of Cybele, Skoptzys of Russia, Hidjas of India) melancholic practices of partial or total castration.


            A recent advance in psychiatric criminology diagnoses in both sex sexual mutilation a transgenerational and collective Münchhausen syndrome by proxy[1], [2]. Firmly united by ethnic complicity, the criminals acquire honour, illusory glory, power, empathy of the group and Community superiority from the mutilation they inflict upon their victims and from that they endured themselves from their own parents. For they consider it physically beneficial and overall believe themselves morally superior thanks to it ("circumcision inscribes scarcity as a fundamental dimension of identity"). They go up to think that it would favour spirituality. This gives this syndrome an exceptional strength, a particularly fierce compulsion of repetition backed by a massive denial of the reality of the endured loss and reinforced by the collective character of the aggression. Normally a simple distinguishing feature, mutilation takes the status of a sign of collective identity that is impossible to challenge without provoking an outcry. The extreme seriousness of this syndrome comes from the fact that the crime is perpetrated upon the child, so that the trauma remains most of the times unconscious.

            In the common Münchhausen syndrome, abusers conceal their automutilation. But as soon as the syndrome becomes collective and perpetrated on helpless ones, the concealment reverses into public display of the mutilation, negated as such and crowed about as the symbol of a collective identity that discriminates foreigners. Similarly, the compulsion to consult the doctor, central in the ordinary Münchhausen, does not exist in ritual sexual mutilation. Here, religion and tradition, not manipulated but accomplices, are substituted for the medical authority. The traditional values of respect of human nature and of the body of the other are totally subverted by religious-cultural fanaticism. Sexual mutilation becomes a second nature, an obscene, abhorrent and inhuman "normality". We are in the presence of collective madness.

            The great criticism of this seductive psychiatric description is that, unlike psychoanalysis, it sees things from outside. It exposes an exacerbated narcissism but passes off the essence of the phenomenon: compulsion of domination over the individual and other groups, exerted through the means of a mutilating torture that puts the minor under terror, for life. For the psychoanalyst, the matter is reversal into the contrary of the forbidden sexual pleasure (autosexuality). The right to pleasure is acquired through a monstrous sacrifice, and lessened (men) or transformed into pain (women). All that is supposed necessary in order to deserve love and esteem of the grand-parents, society and the divinity. Sexual mutilation directly hits the decreed guilty organ, for the greatest satisfaction of the neurotic, made guilty and making guilty perpetrators.

            However, that psychiatric analysis confirms our analysis of the autobiographic chapter of the book: "Parano man"[3] by Doctor Olievenstein. We have shown that circumcision is, unconsciously, the red thread of his paranoid psychosis (cf. our article: "The case of Doctor Olievenstein":

So, we have established the psychotic nature of the collective trauma provoked by circumcision at birth. The latter is dangerous, it may drive one mad, collectively mad (cf. the first genocide in history: Jericho), which we stressed through establishing the strong existing correlation between violence and circumcision (cf. our page at independent.academia.edu).:

Freud notes:

"The hypothesis that a root of those hatreds of the Jews (Judenhasses) which occur in such primary ways and lead to such irrational behaviour among the nations of the West, must be sought here too, seems inescapable to me. Circumcision is unconsciously equated with castration."[4]

Alice Miller outbids:

"Ritual practices of circumcision and excision have effects that reach not only the individual and their descendants but also other men."[5]
And she so introduces her few pages about sexual mutilation:

"... society ... till now said yes to humanity’s greatest crimes."

Moisés Tractenberg explains that sadism:

"Another psychological consequence of early circumcision is that it imprints an aggressive and traumatic situation onto the mind of the newborn… The impossibility of processing such a tremendous infusion of inwardly focused aggression may lead, a posteriori, to the emergence of psychopathic and violent behaviour or, in many other cases, to the emergence of extreme masochistic behaviour."[6]


The consequences of this racism and this violence are dramatic; on the one hand, conflicts multiply, on the other hand, wars between circumcised or between circumcised and intacts sometimes degenerate into genocide. For Freud did not go up to the end of his thought. Because for the unconscious that, according to him, likens the part and the whole, a threat of castration is also a threat of death. Now, exerted on a whole ethnic group, an individual threat of death is a threat of extermination of the whole group, immediately projected upon the adverse group by the unconscious. So, circumcision is a push towards genocide. Of the twenty three genocides of modern times: Circassian Muslims (1860), Congolese (1870), Hereros (1904-07), Greeks (1914-18), Assyrians (1914-20), Armenians (1915), Serbs (41-45), Jews (1942-45), Tziganes (1942-45), Tchechens (1944-48), Indonesian communists (1965-66), Biafrans (1966-68), Guineans (1968-79), Bengalis (1971), Hutus (1972), East Timor inhabitants (1975-99), Kurds (1988-89), Tutsis (1994), Bengalis (1990-2000), Bosnians (1991-95), inhabitants of Darfur (2003), Iraqi Kurds (2005), Rohinghyas (2012), twenty (87%) involved circumcised peoples on at least one side and five on both sides. The circumcised perpetrated twelve of them, of which seven against intacts. We are forced to report the narrowness of the correlation between on the one hand, circumcision and lack of democracy (in all the cases listed above), on the other hand, genocide. Only that of the Tziganes has been perpetrated between intacts. But the Tzigane exception is not quite one since some Tziganes are circumcised. Between 1996 and 2002, but for one civil war (Sri Lanka), all wars involved at least one circumcising country. Their frequency was more than three times higher in circumcising countries. The death penalty is twice more frequent in them. Torture is more widespread in them. They are the only ones to practise excision. The feminicide in Eastern Congo is the work of circumcised Hutu looters who destroy those whom they used as a foreskin afterwards. Circumcised Congo holds the world record of rape: 400,000 annually. In Norway, between 2006 and 2010, two per cent of circumcised men committed a hundred per cent of the rapes, upon ninety per cent of native Norwegians. Sexual mutilation separates the child from the mother. This is monstrous, the result is catastrophic; it is the breeding ground of (reciprocal) paranoia, fanaticism, group and state terrorism, and sexism. Circumcision makes the equilibrium of terror and the fortune of gun merchants[7].

            The collective and transgenerational syndrome of Munchhaüsen by proxy gives a startling description of the circumcising psychosis. The repercussions of that collective and contagious madness are extremely serious.




[1] Meadow, Roy). Münchhausen Syndrome by Proxy: The Hinterland of Child Abuse. Lancet 1977 (310), 343–5. http://web.tiscali.it/humanrights/articles/meadow77.html
[2] Matteoli R. Blood Ritual, the Münchhausen complex. Nunzio press; 2008.
[3] Olievenstein C. L’homme parano. Paris: Odile Jacob; 1992. p. 31.
[4] Freud S. Moses and monotheism. 1936. London: The Hogarth press ltd.; 1964. S.E., XXIII, p. 91.
[5] Banished knowledge - Facing childhood injuries. New York: Anchor press; 1997. Chap VII.
[6] Tractenberg M. Psychoanalysis of circumcision. Male and female circumcision. New York: Denniston et al. Plenum publishers; 1999.
[7] Bertaux-Navoiseau M. Génocide, wars, the death penalty, excision, rape and circumcision. academia.edu

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