A Psycho-Political Critique for Gang Stalking with Electronic Targeted Assaults: Part I Analyzing Theory

“The task thus becomes to track the patterned ways that violence seeks to name as violent that which resists it, and how the violent character of a legal regime is exposed as it forcibly quells dissent, punishes workers who refuse the exploitative terms of contracts, sequesters minorities, imprisons its critics, and expels its potential rivals.”

― Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind

Some liberal political representatives believe the “state of nature” (that is, the state of nature of man) is one where we emerged into this social and political world from an already fully developed natural state, and in this natural state of nature, we are already, for some reason, fully grown individuals who are independent and responsible, and, in this state, we are also in conflict with one another. This is fiction, and it is a very powerful fiction (Starobinski,1988) and when we enter this fiction we can understand it as a “maze” or “labyrinth” that compels one to ask, “What can be discerned from its structure?” And also ask, “What clues does it give us, and what can be discerned from those clues?” In addition to, “What cannot be figured out or uncovered?”

This is the political theory that has screwed up the entire ethical-political configuration because it does not account for the state of the individual in dependency during pre-Oedipal development (Klein, 1963). This supposed “state of nature” forecloses not only the maternal, it forecloses the state of dependency in the human development of the child; the mother-child configuration. Precluded is the little human who eventually grows to become this “fully developed, independent, responsible primary male.” In this state of nature, the primary founding figure is masculine because the feminine is foreclosed upon (Butler, 2020; Holmes, 2013; Chodorow, 2012). The dependency state, which is precluded in this political theory, is a state that continues as part of our existence because we never fully arrive at total “independence.” That is to say, we are interdependent on one another as individuals even after we have grown into fully human adults. Even municipalities, states, and countries are interdependent upon one another.

In her book, Individualizing Gender and Sexuality: Theory and Practice, Nancy J. Chodorow comments on the fragilities and fault lines of masculine selfhood. She provides us an explanation with her theory of the Achilles Complex and says that fears of dependency, abandonment, loss of self, and fears of women’s sexuality; masculinity, or maleness, has to do primarily with two things. First, it has to do with not being a woman or dependent upon a woman. Second, masculine development has to do with not being a little boy/child in relation to an adult/father. This would explain why man sprang as a fully developed responsible adult in his social-political world. This supports the political theory of man’s state of nature which precludes the mother and the state of dependency belonging to a child (pg. 121–136). This would explain why some would want to dehumanize another by making them even worse alcoholics, fatter diabetics, and more pathetic than they were originally, or make them suffer in pain through electronic targeted assaults. It is because by applying a force based on masculine power, a force that exerts enough pressure to make the target even more weak and vulnerable, and thereby, even more castrated. By doing this they gain the higher ground which is to possess even more power. This is part and parcel of the components and mechanisms belonging to the state’s technological apparatus of oppression and slavery.

In Butler’s book, she suggests the need for a new paradigm, one that would include the practice of nonviolence. She calls it an “egalitarian imaginary.” In this new configuration, there would also have to include psychoanalytical theory where patricide and matricide neither exist in the human psyche? That is, neither the father nor the mother becomes precluded, but both are recognized, validated, and exist in union with the child in a peaceful state of equality within the psyche. One is not relegated to a lower status. Both are mutually equal. This is the new paradigm that has never yet been theorized and would support, in my opinion, how secure attachment works in early childhood development. That is, at least in theory.

But back to addressing “natural man’s” state of amnesia of having never been fed, never been dependent upon another, wrapped in the warmth of a blanket, and nurtured by someone into his natural grown development. It is here where we might address aggression in the form of hostile avoidance and neglect of other’s needs which pulls in the concept of not only morality, ethics, social, and financial equality, but also genetics which I will not discuss here. There are no laws that say conduct must be moral or ethical and that’s an issue. There are no laws that say, “We must tithe a portion of our salary to the poor in addition to paying state and federal taxes.” These are behaviors people arbitrarily perform because they see value in performing them. Any laws banning immoral or unethical behaviors are created by people who see the value in instituting them and enforcing them; like gun laws and laws against murder, oppression, slavery, and discrimination. Laws that do not unduly oppress and deny people of their civil rights. So, I have to wonder why there have been no laws banning the use of electronic weapons against US citizens? A behavior that clearly violates US citizens’ 4th amendment rights! And the answer seems to lie in the facts surrounding how people conceive of the concept of ‘nonviolence.’ In her book, The Force of Nonviolence: An ethico-political bind, Judith Butler suggests we first think of nonviolence as a sustained commitment even a way of rerouting aggression for the purposes of affirming ideals of equality and freedom, and secondly, she suggests nonviolence does not make sense without a commitment to equality. Considering that in this world some lives are more clearly valued than others and that this inequality implies that certain lives will be more tenaciously fought and defended for than others.

Butler poses the following question;

“Under what historical conditions do such fantasies take hold?”

Butler’s response:

“They become possible and persuasive from within a condition of social conflict or as a consequence of its history; they represent, perhaps, the dream of an escape from the sufferings associated with the capitalist organization of work, or they function as a justification for the very organization. These imaginings articulate, and comment upon, the arguments for strengthening state power and its instruments of violence to cultivate or contain the popular will; they emerge in our understanding of populism, the condition in which the popular will is imagined to assume an unconstrained form or to rebel against established structures; they encode and reproduce forms of domination and exploitation that set classes and religious or racial groups against one another, as if “tribalism” were a primitive or natural condition that rears up and explodes if states fail to exercise restraining powers — that is, if states fail to impose their own violence, including legal violence (Butler, 2020).”

They become possible under conditions of historical social conflict involving inequality and oppression. This is not fiction. This is Truth. It is here we can discuss the psychology of the paranoid-schizoid and this personality constellation’s need for control and domination over Other (Cohn, 1987; Jacobs, 2007). Similar to the fiction I was once given as an explanation as to why men rape women; “Men rape women because certain men are not selected for mating.” This fictional belief clandestinely places the blame on women for the reason why men rape and precludes any responsibility on the part of the man for his own actions. How can this be so? When some men who aren’t selected for mating or sex play do not problem-solve with physical sexual assault. I just could not blindly accept this as a valid reason why men rape. To me, it’s similar to the fiction “man sprung fully developed from a state of nature into his social and political environment as primary ruler who, by the way, has been historically a white male.” It’s the same kind of fiction that makes people believe women deserve to be raped because <enter any reason here>. You can pick from any of the following reasons and write some other reasons in if you like; she walked home alone, she wore a short tight-fitting dress, she entered a bar, she drank alcohol, she was flirting with him. These possessed beliefs create what is known as victim-blaming and, as a form of fiction, holds incredible power to persuade the audience that listens to its pontifications. It also holds the power of performing a form of perspecticide. People love fiction, and people love scandal and they love blaming others instead of finding real solutions to problems because it’s easier to take down a problem through blaming and targeting than to actually figure out a way one can live in peaceful union with them. Our last president was proof of that.

In the field of psychiatry, there is a diagnosis called Pseudologica Phantasmagoria. It is a fancy term that describes the character trait of pathological lying. If the history of our entire functioning political state, the supposed “state of nature” theory which has gone on to form the corporate political climate, then man has not only been engaging in long-term pseudologica phantasmagoria; evolving, encoding, and reproducing forms of domination and exploitation that set classes and religious or racial groups against one another, he has also been operating in the midst of large scale corporate-political entities that are the by-products of his phantasmagoric carnival house of illusions. In an imaginary scene where the protagonist representing the fulfillment of a wish in a manner that is distorted to a greater or lesser degree by defensive processes, a “Fantasme,” a structured psychic modality by which reality itself is invariably interpreted and theaters created (Butler, 2020; Kohn, 1987; Laplanche & Pontalis, 1967). I cannot stress enough how accurately this describes gang stalking with electronic targeted assault.

Since aggression is a component part of social bonds based on interdependency, how aggression is crafted makes the difference for a practice, a practice that is resistant to violence and can imagine a new future of social equality. And since how aggression is crafted makes the difference in this practice, a practice that will either be resistant to violence or pre-disposed to it, the very social contract of man in his practice of corporate-political forms of power has included it to include a sexual contract and gender is tightly held by one power; not the weak and not the vulnerable. In America, we have crafted aggression in such a way as to be pre-disposed to beget more violence, upon more violence, upon more violence. Gang stalking with electronic targeted assaults is just another component of the phantasmagorical technological state apparatus, where a corporate-political mentality of greed creates the violence of oppression and slavery.

Historically, how aggression has played a part in social relationships in America has involved prejudice in the forms of racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, and the systemic disregard for the poor and the dispossessed. Forms of these prejudices are rooted at the very center of Melanie Klein’s theories on the paranoid-schizoid. This paper offers, through a historical, political, social, and psychoanalytic lens, a theory that explains the phantasmagoric phenomenon known as gang stalking with electronic targeted assaults as belonging to the phantasmagorical industrial-military complex. It belongs to the mentality of men who have created industries that serve the units found within this complex; all military branches, NASA, the communication industry, the federal and local law enforcement. The corporate-political forms of power also transfer forms of this power through dispersal and distribution of commodities to other quasi-militant groups that utilize militant forms of oppression and control with the use of guns and advancing technology. This may include advancing medical technologies as well as advancing communication technologies whose experimental practice will benefit man in his future.

One might ask the question, “Why are legal reforms surrounding gun laws so difficult to institute?” and “Will they even help when gun dealers sell under the counter?”

Sources:

Starobinski, Jean. (1988). Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction. Chicago. University of Chicago Press.

Butler, Judith. (2020). The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind. New York. Verso Publishing.

Jacobs, Amber. (2007). On Matricide: Myth, Psychoanalysis, and the Law of the Mother. New York. Columbia University Press.

Carol Cohn. ( 1987). Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defence Intellectuals. In Signs, Vol. 12, №4, Within and Without: Women, Gender, and Theory. (Summer 1987), pp. 687–718.

https://www.colby.edu/sts/st112/Sex&Death_Cohn.pdf

Laplanche, J. & Pontalis, J.B. (1967). The Language of Psycho-Analysis. New York. W.W. Norton

Klein, Melanie (1963). Some Reflection on the Oresteia. In Envy and Gratitude and Other Works: 1946–1963. (London. Virago, 1988). Klein comments “Aeschylus presents to us a picture of human development from its roots to its most advanced levels.”

Chodorow, Nancy J. (2012). Individualizing Gender and Sexuality: Theory and Practice. New York. Routledge.

Holmes, Lucy. (2013). Wrestling with Destiny: The Promise of Psychoanalysis. New York. Routledge. In this book Holmes comments: “Men obliterate the memory of an initial dependence on a woman over which they had no control, creating what Andre Green called “the dead mother (Green, 2001). However, there are inevitable problems with this psychic murder. Evacuating the maternal representation from the mind creates a void within the masculine psyche. The mother who has been declared nonexistent remains emotionally irreplaceable, and the guilt which is the consequence of the fantasied matricide fuels a rigid and defensive stance toward the female sex. Men need to subjugate women to shore up the defenses created by the problem of the dead mother” (pg. 75).

Other works not cited in this paper but important to the topic of nonviolence:

Chasseguet-Smirgel, Janine (1984). Creativity and Perversion. London. Free Association Books.

Holmes, Lucy. (2008) The Internal Triangle: Theories of Female Development. New York. Jason Aronson.

Schulman, Sarah. (2016). Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair. Vancouver, Canada. Arsenal Pulp Press. The meaning transmitted by this book conveys concern over how social differences are dealt with when people overstated harm when there is no real harm or stigmatize social difference as “harming” because social difference makes a person feel uncomfortable.

Stark, Evan. (2007). Coercive Control: How men entrap women in personal life. New York. Oxford University Press.