No, following the  Frankfurt School, the search for the "good  father" produces submissiveness  (a.ka. false consciousness), a desire to be protected from external threatening forces (Bush's invocation of terrorists), and rage at anyone who would end the possibility of repairing the damage inflicted during childhood.

Joel Blau

Bill Lear wrote:
On Monday, February 9, 2004 at 10:28:36 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
...
Or, if you want to take it further, there's Judith Butler's argument
- rooted in that silly doctrine called psychoanalysis - that subjects
are formed in subjection (through deference to authority figures,
like parents, and their successors, like language and law), and that
attitude of deference to authority persists through life, for fear of
the disintegration of the subject.

So, our chains become part of us, and attempts to break the chains
therefore hurt?


Bill




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