XPost: alt.psychology, alt.psychology.jung, alt.psychology.psychoanalysis   
   XPost: sci.psychology.theory, sci.psychology.misc   
   From: mlwi@swipnet.se   
      
   Thanatos is a psychological function that accompanies the ego complex,   
   as shadow accompanies light. In Egyptian mythology, Horus establishes   
   dominion over Seth by adopting Seth as his son. Horus is the paragon   
   of the modern ego, Seth is the shadow. This is a very sound map of the   
   psyche. The corresponding relation in Christianity is that the shadow   
   is throughly rejected and relegated to the underworldly realm.   
      
   Thanatos is necessary to the survival of our species as a defensive   
   function of psychic economy. To the extent that the ego is rooted in   
   our biology, so is Thanatos, although it is operative in the psychic   
   realm. There is no wish to self-destruct as a biological species. The   
   destructive impulse serves to strengthen the borders of personality,   
   essential to the long-term survival of both the individual and the   
   species. Nietzsche, lending the voice of Thanatos, said that warfare   
   paves the way for the Übermensch, which is really Horus, the sun-hero.   
   Nietzsche isn't out to destroy the human species, but to augment its   
   survival-value.   
      
   The destructive impulse is triggered when personality faces   
   disintegration in unconscious merger. The policy of the Yugoslav   
   compound nation was to live together in unthinking unison, which is   
   why Yugoslavia turned into a collective suicide sect. What is the   
   consequence when the European welfare states accept immigrants from   
   regions where a passive life-style is natural, even desirable? In an   
   effort to repress our collective shadow, which is Nietzschean   
   Thanatos, European politicians are devoted to the motherly motif, and   
   the protection of all people in the world. Accordingly, they allow   
   mass-immigration of ethnicities who elevate the motherly ideal and to   
   whom womanhood is equated with motherhood. I don't mean to disparage   
   these people. We are providing them with comfortable living   
   circumstances, which they judge according to the matriarchal criterion   
   as preferable to hard toil. The patriarchal criterion is reversed. The   
   consequence is that Thanatos is mounting in the unconscious. There is   
   great risk that Europe will burn again, this time in civil war.   
   Mats Winther   
      
   http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/thanatos.htm   
      
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