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OF FEAR AND STRANGERS •
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Groups, Freud asserted, need somebody to hate. Through the offices of projection, they were therefore created. However, Freud could not but note that such aliens were, comically enough often hardly different from the beloved insiders. Spaniards despises the Portuguese. The English and the Scottish sneered at each other. North and South Germans could not countenance their inscrutable compatriots . for anyone looking on from afar, it was absurd. Freud dubbed this quarrelsomeness “The narcissism of minor differences.” As for the Soviet experiment with communism, its zeal for equality, Freud predicted, would psychically require scapegoats. For the impossible demands of Fraternity, by the laws of Defensive projections, would lead to a perpetual war against those who were denounced as selfish, strangers and refused immersion into the commune. ~ Page 185

OF FEAR AND STRANGERS
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Where others gazed upward to the heavens, the psychoanalyst looked inward, and concluded that ‘the root of every form of religion’ is, at base, “a longing for the father,’ In ‘Totem and Taboo, published a year before the First World War broke out, Sigmund Freud drew upon Muller’s science, Darwin’s evolution, and Taylor’s animism in order to understand the dank recess of the human psyche. The doctor, inspired by the army of fetishes on his desk, draw on the vast storehouse of “primitive” beliefs collected by missionaries, colonial officers, and travelers to forge the language of psychoanalysis. He was untroubled by how own footnote warning that the data was unreliable, collected as it had been across language barriers and interpreted by scholars at an even further remove. Among his sources, Freud leaned heavily on the Scottish anthropologist James Frfazer, who in 1890 ;published the first volume of “The Golden Bough,’ his compendium of religious beliefs and practices that sought to reveal how Christianity was derived from ancient, primal streams of myth. It was Freud wrote, a gold mine “of valuable facts and opinions.” ~ Page 204

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