2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
From a beard to a bald head, or on the decarralization of oedipal paternal objects
Some insights based on a recent trip to Germany. Near one of the central streets of Berlin - Unter den Linden, there is a public garden where a monument to Marx and Engels was erected shortly before the fall of the communist regime. Marx is sitting, and Engels is standing. After debunking the communist ideology, the Germans did not demolish this monument, but turned it into a kind of art object. The founders of scientific communism are now dressed up in different clothes, like a peeing boy in Brussels, painted, each time in different ways.
We even saw a certain performance - two women pasted paper applications with abstract drawings on the monument. It all looked funny and … a little blasphemous. I was surprised to see in myself a certain amount of indignation at such a treatment of the monument. It would seem that the Germans do whatever they want with the characters from their history: they want to demolish, they want to paste over them with applications. However, I managed to track how deeply in childhood the attitude towards these people as sacred figures was implanted. There was no third member of the trinity - Lenin, but even without him, such an attitude towards the two remaining characters was jarring. Not very much - as a kind of rudiment of consciousness, but nonetheless.
Although, if you recall - already in my school years (mid 70s - early 80s), they told each other and anecdotes about the leaders of the proletariat.
- Krupa, wash off, sweep bald with porn.
Or anecdote, the phrase from which is taken out in the title:
A man gets into a taxi:
- From a beard to a bald spot!
- Where where?
- From Prospect Marks to Leninsky.
So in school years there was no special reverence for these figures, and even the Komsomol meetings and Lenin's tests managed to get pissed off. Rather, this layer of memory (and emotional memory as well) refers to preschool age, I would venture to suggest that by the Oedipal period, when a certain transference was formed on the holy trinity of Marx-Engels-Lenin, either paternal, or some kind of superfather (something a little strange - not for one leader, which would be understandable, but for three at once, an echo of the Christian trinity, perhaps).
Freud's works "The Future of One Illusion", "Dissatisfaction with Culture" and some others describe the psychological process of forming a religious feeling, an attitude towards God as a superfather figure. Probably, something similar happened here, but since the idea of God, and then the figure of the Leader that replaced it, was abandoned by that time, then this trinity became a replacement, for all its seemingly rational absurdity. Propaganda during that period of my life quite successfully coped with the fact that part of my libido was split off into the formation of emotional attachment to these figures.
Now it is strange to realize all this, you understand the absurdity of your warm feelings for them, the absurdity of this attachment. Thanks to the Germans for their performance. Perhaps, consciously or unconsciously, they are working on their attitude to this part of their history, desacralization of such internal objects of their unconscious.
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