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To: skinowski who wrote (149688)	12/3/2005 11:44:49 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793858

Can anyone recall seeing any good articles examining the WOT and the Iraqi campaign from a psychoanalytic POV? Where ya been, Skin? :>) I have posted a couple of excellent analysis by "Dr Sanity" here. Check these posts and his blog. Message 21927916 Message 21880918 Message 21918139 drsanity.blogspot.com

To: skinowski who wrote (149688)	12/4/2005 11:08:59 AM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 793858

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. headlinemuse.com

To: skinowski who wrote (149688)	12/4/2005 11:18:11 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793858

Can anyone recall seeing any good articles examining the WOT and the Iraqi campaign from a psychoanalytic POV? Specifically, I am interested in understanding WHY so many on the Left and among the intelligentsia fell in so easily and... naturally into their "anti-war" stance. I think that would be interesting for both sides. Most people did seem to "fall in easily" with one side or the other. I've been trying to turn question over as things have progressed. I'd love to see someone who had the qualifications address the question.