Anonymous
ID: bVrEExRv
7/2/2025, 9:30:37 PM No.509332839
I am tired of reading that Netanyahu is a psychopath. He certainly is not. I see no reason to consider him, or any other Israeli leader, a psychopath in the medical sense of the word. He, and others like him, have a collective psychopathy, which is a very different thing.
This is a crucial point, without which we will never understand Israel. Calling their leaders psychopaths is useless. What we need to do is recognize Israel as an entity suffering from collective psychopathy and study the origin of this unique national character. It is a matter of survival for the world, just as it is a matter of survival for any group of people to recognize the psychopath among them and understand his patterns of thought and behavior.
The difference is the same as that between a personal neurosis and a collective neurosis. According to Freud, religion (and he meant Christianity) is a collective neurosis. Freud did not mean to say that religious people are neurotic. On the contrary, he observed that collective neurosis tended to make religious people immune from personal neuroses. I do not subscribe to Freud's theory, I only use it to introduce my own: Zionists, even the most bloodthirsty, are not psychopaths at an individual level; within their community many of them are affectionate and even altruistic people. They are rather the vectors of a collective psychopathy, that is, of a particular way (which we could define as non-human) through which they see and interact collectively with other human communities.
This is a crucial point, without which we will never understand Israel. Calling their leaders psychopaths is useless. What we need to do is recognize Israel as an entity suffering from collective psychopathy and study the origin of this unique national character. It is a matter of survival for the world, just as it is a matter of survival for any group of people to recognize the psychopath among them and understand his patterns of thought and behavior.
The difference is the same as that between a personal neurosis and a collective neurosis. According to Freud, religion (and he meant Christianity) is a collective neurosis. Freud did not mean to say that religious people are neurotic. On the contrary, he observed that collective neurosis tended to make religious people immune from personal neuroses. I do not subscribe to Freud's theory, I only use it to introduce my own: Zionists, even the most bloodthirsty, are not psychopaths at an individual level; within their community many of them are affectionate and even altruistic people. They are rather the vectors of a collective psychopathy, that is, of a particular way (which we could define as non-human) through which they see and interact collectively with other human communities.
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