Ian F. Svenonius - The Psychic Soviet

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This volume should clear up much of the confusion regarding events of the last millenniumartistic, geopolitical, philosophical, et al.

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Feel free to scribble rebuttals and notations in the generous margins of the book itself. Or to quote it aloud. This is intended as a living volume.

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THE PSYCHIC SOVIET

The Cold War in Psycho-Geopolitics

The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.

friedrich engels

i.psd

The collapse of the Soviet Union was the most grievous psychological event in recent history.

Though referred to officially in bourgeois society as moral fable and totem of Gods will, this calamitythe 1991 defeat of international socialismhas plunged the population of the world into a state of nihilism and despair.

Though this depression is recognized as a global crisis, its cause is not widely acknowledged or even understood. Even so, the post-Soviet world is a place haunted by its former inhabitant and the nature of that inhabitants demise. The fantastic popularity of antidepressants is just one symptom of a Post-Soviet Depression (PSD) syndrome. Other signs of PSD are worse and more far-reaching in re: to their long-term effects.

The idealism that once characterized Homo sapiens, for example, seems to have vanished. Instead of drawing up hopeful plans for the future, or engaging his signature featureingenuityhe now stares vacantly into the abyss. Meanwhile, the earth is steered toward apocalypse by its most deranged element.

Mans new fatalism reveals that he, like his leaders, has become deranged. Once he was a crusader for this or for that. Now, in the throes of PSD, he is either an idiot, a kook, or just a transcendental lecher. He holds the future in open contempt. His brain is just a warehouse for putrefied cynicism. His only appetite is for sensory and sensual kicks; garden-variety vulgarities devised to keep him numb and perpetuate idiocy.

For him, the end of the Cold War signaled, instead of a chance to proliferate peace and equality, an accelerated reiteration of the Neroism and barbarity that had characterized his most abject moments. It marked the final, hopeless capitulation to Abaddon.

The war on terror and its various offspring (renditions, invasions, space weapons, torture chambers, et al.) are just the grotesque ejaculations of the USSRs malfunctioning, off-balancealbeit victoriousarchnemesis, the USA. They were inevitable after and foretold by the far grander, much misrepresented, and strangely underplayed superevent known as The Socialist Collapse.

Why, though, should the undoing of an institution so universally despised and as disfigured by revisionist historical framing as Soviet socialism precipitate such cosmic depression? The USSR wasand still iseveryones favorite punching bag.

The answer, though not altogether rational, reveals an unconscious understanding of events barred from the official narrative of history.

ii.psycho-geo-tics

Politically delineated state entities, although they are contrived abstractions, nonetheless have deep and resonant associations for what psychologist Carl Jung referred to as the collective unconscious, or mass mind. These geopolitical characters are a constellation referred to as much as the family in the selfs determination of identity, their fortunes often determined by their inhabitants blind, convulsive will.

Political constructs such as national/racial identity or the emotional attachment to a states leader are sublimated projection: the cloying gurgles of an infant child. They make no sense even to their mewing dispatchers.

They are simply the voiced rationalizations for a deeply rooted identification with (or, perhaps, alienation from) nation-states (not only ones own, but all perceived states) as archetypes in a system of astral-political deities.

This phenomenon, whereby the politically contrived abstraction of the nation assumes an archetypal character or persona, is an intrinsic quality to mankind and is called psychological geopolitics, or psycho-geo-tics for short.

Psycho-geo-tic conflict is perhaps best exemplified by one of its many ancient examplesthe warrior city-state Sparta versus democratic Athensbut has been an underlying current in human history long before that particular S&M duo was conjured up by Greek perverts. Lord Byron was acting out a psycho-geo-tic impulse centuries later when he joined the Greek war against the Turks and jumped to his death in the Bosporus. (Byron, being a Romantic-era animal man, was more prone than normal people to act on psycho-geo-tic instinct.) The confrontation between Vietnam and the United Statesa more recent eventis shrouded in much psycho-geo-tic fuzz; US motorcycle enthusiasts still wistfully yearn for that war, which gave full expression to barbaric impulses repressed at home by the civil rights movement. Though transnational conflicts all have their materialist/political root causes (e.g., imperialism), the manipulation of primitive psychology (psy-ops) is key to rallying support for mass violence.

In the modern era, especially since World War II but even before that, no players in psychological geopolitics have been as emotionally significant as the USA and the USSR. In a Jungian sense, these two constructs represent a maternal/paternal dialectic, with the military alliances they spawned, the Warsaw Pact and NATO, representing competing familial clans.

The USA was the father and the USSR, dominated by Mother Russia, was of course the mother. The Cold War was, to the primitive psyche of the spectator, a parental schism of cosmic proportion, with the inhabitants of the earth caught in the ensuing megastruggle for the childrens loyalty.

That divorce rates exploded through the tenure of the Cold War was a direct result of this latent gender identification and the chronic ill-defined state of war which existed between the two sexual proxies: a situation which mirrored a fractious, warring household.

iii.mother

On the one hand was the socialist East. Though popularly ridiculed as an evil slave state, the USSRs politburo was acutely concerned with feminism right from its inception. Socialist philosophers Marx, Engels, Fourier, Kollontai, and Bebel all addressed sexual inequality in their tracts and had come to the conclusion that There can be no emancipation of humanity without the social independence and equality of the sexes (Bebel, 1879).