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WHAT HE SAID AND WHAT HE WROTE
filiation has been severed and cultural progeny denied between
Germans and the ancients or the Fathers.
The patricide in the form of the denouncement of the Pope as
Antichrist and breaking away from the Church of Rome as an
institution of Satan; an emphasis on the self-generated people in
maternal land as symbolic incest, have created a psychic situation
condicive to regression to a fusion with pre-oedipal mother and the
consequent increase in the feelings of sin. In this light one can
perhaps assess the editorial of Le Monde (26 December 1992)
which says that ‘these demonstrations (against racism) reflected in
(Germany) impregnated with Lutheranism, the need of public
redemption of a nation which feels sinful.’
The harsh doctrine of the absolute transcendental nature of
God, the belief that everything pertaining to the flesh is corrupt
and pre-destination in the Reformation seem to be a reaction to or
a compensation for this ‘sinfulness’. Therefore, in Protestantism,
there was little room for the very human Catholic cycle of sin,
repentance, atonement, release followed by renewed sin. The
projection mechanism must have developed as the only means of
the relief for the protestant who has projected every sin-generating
instinct and desire onto the victim.
Rigour of Protestantism must have influenced child-rearing
practices, putting heavy emphasis on bodily cleanliness,
orderliness, submission to authority etc. As a result, compulsive,
rigid, perfectionist, and intolerant character structures have
become prominent. Accordingly, foreigners who are not as
compulsive as Germans are accused of being dirty, disorderly,
noisy, untidy etc. But these are natural tendencies and desires of
the child which are repressively denied by parents who are moved
by their guilty feelings. Once these unwanted parts of the character
are projected onto foreigners, they are despised and hated in the
same way as these parents have despised and hated their
“naughty” children.
Dear Guest,
The reason why this overdeveloped projection mechanism in the
Protestant has acquired racist features can be explained by the
particularities of German nationalism.
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