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To: skinowski who wrote (149688)12/4/2005 11:08:59 AM
From: skinowski   of 793868
 
Is There a Psychoanalyst in the House?

I found this curious Jungian psychoanalitic essay... It makes sense in many ways - clearly, America and the Coalition going to war in Iraq do seem to represent an "Apollonian framework" -- and the "ignored" anti-warnics do remind one of Cassandra.

But the author forgets that Cassandra was a Trojan, who warned against the trecherous Greeks (the "Apollonians"). At the same time, the vast majority of people who spoke out against the war, were not Iraqis - they were Westerners. In other words, this analyst assigns to the West both sides of the "Apollo-Cassandra complex"... basically, ignoring the Iraqis in her analysis.

The same mistake is routinely committed by those who would "blame America first". The possibility that the Muslim world may have great issues and conflicts in which America plays, in essence, only a periferal part (maybe even more or less only as a target, or as means to someone else's ends) - is something which they seem incapable of incorporating into their vision of the world.

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