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   From: mlwi@swipnet.se   
      
   "Thanatos"   
      
   Abstract: The principle of the death drive (Thanatos) is understood as   
   a genuine psychic force connected with the mother complex.   
   Destructivity in repetitious form temporarily emancipates the ego from   
   unconscious dependency in the psychology of phallic-narcissism. It is   
   also present in the immature or fragile personality (the weak ego).   
   Thanatos is unconsciously therapeutic in that it aims at strengthening   
   a weak ego consciousness, thus to ward off unconscious wholeness,   
   invariably associated with the Mother archetype. Although it serves to   
   avoid regression, destructiveness can become obsessive. The sun-god   
   Horus's perennial struggle against Seth, in Egyptian mythology,   
   illustrates the dynamics of Thanatos. Accordingly, every night Seth   
   defends the sun-bark by defeating the negative Mother in the guise of   
   the chaos monster Apophis. Thanks to Seth, the sun of consciousness is   
   restored and can rise again in the morning. In history, phallocentric   
   culture is sustained by Thanatos in its restorative capacity, but this   
   runs counter to the ideals of patriarchal culture, whose guiding star   
   is Horus.   
      
   Keywords: Todestrieb, trauma, suicide, mortido, destrudo, patriarchal,   
   matriarchal.   
      
   Read the article here:   
   http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/thanatos.htm   
      
   Mats Winther   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)