On Delusions, Hallucinations, Religion and Political Philosophies and the Necrophilious Character
The problem, an analyst/writer/author can become prey to both a “maximum attack on her subjectivity” and to a “maximum attack on her bodily integrity” from the victim-cum-perpetrator she is discussing, treating, or working with. The attack involves a “collapse of the space in which it becomes possible to think.” For me, this “collapse” seems to be associated with the lesser traditions of specialized human torture. It happens in abusive relationships of all sorts. Psychoanalysts may experience the assault from childhood victims who become adult perpetrators. These types of assaults can also be characterized as nonsadistic narcissistic usage. Although a bit different, we can consider the events of when US intelligence officials fell victim in Cuba and in China, as well as other over sea locations, to some type of directed energy weapon thought to be acoustic or microwave. In short, the destruction of that which threatens to annihilate which is observed in several types of mentally ill psychological modalities.
Large nations that maintain large military apparatuses and large military industrialized complexes, require necrophilious characters to operate and maintain operations. If we consider Fromm’s (1964) necrophilious character, whose violence is “driven by the desire to transform the organic into the inorganic … all living processes, feelings and thoughts, are transformed into “things” … the necrophilious person can relate to an object … only if he can possess it; hence, a threat to his possession is a threat to himself … if he loses possession, he loses contact with the world (pg.41).” This also resonates with Freud (1920) vision of the “demonic human” and their need to return to an inorganic state, to those inanimate things [which] existed before living ones (pg.38).”
On Delusions and Hallucinations
In psychology, even though something like religious spirituality has the potential for creating psychic states of delusions and hallucinations, we do not consider them bad because of the high degree of beneficial and therapeutic effects on human well being.
