Chris, if you and Natalia - among others - are interested in Freudian
analyses of these matters, you may want to read some of the papers
located at http://ideologiesofwar.com/papers/.
Barry
On Sep 15, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Christoph Reuss wrote:
Natalia Kuzmyn wrote:
Ever desperate for an excuse to bear arms, new groups of US citizens
have been not only congregating to discuss concerns about illegal
immigrants crossing their borders, they are actually taking it upon
themselves to patrol the borders. They say they are worried about
drugs,
and especially about terrorists. They have been guarding the Mexican
border for a while now, and as can be expected, have been subject to
accusations of racism. Now a group is prepared to do the same at the
Washington border to Canada, and have already begun to wander the
nearby
woodlands looking for those possible twenty or so per annum that might
sneak across that way.
In reply, Canadian managers should wander the corporate corridors
looking
for U$ CEOs that might sneak in to control the Canadian economy...
As was interestingly demonstrated by Prof. McMurtry of Guelph
University
Philosophy Department, the US tends to accuse other nations of evils
that
they themselves are currently or are about to unleash upon the
accused.
The U$ is not the only nation with this vice -- Israel is also great in
projections, e.g. denying the Palestinians the right of using terrorism
for founding an own state, when Israel itself was founded on terrorism.
On the purpose of psychological projections:
In practice, the individual that uses a projection often does NOT
perceive the projected attributes as bad --after all, they are its OWN
attributes--, but knows that _others_ (or "the public") perceive these
attributes as bad. Consistently, the purpose of the projection is NOT
to "expel feelings or wishes the individual finds wholly unacceptable".
Rather, the purpose is to mislead _third_parties_ about the projecting
person's character, making it look better (in comparison) than it is.
I.e. if A is a thief, A accuses B of being a thief in order to
divert C's attention from A's theft (C can be "everyone else") --
this does NOT mean (as the posted definition suggested) that A deems
theft a bad thing. Actually, A can be very proud of (own) thefts.
Chris
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