Osama On Freud’s Couch Solves The Mother Of All Mysteries

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
October 18, 2007

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/217/osama-on-freuds-couch-solves-the-mother-of-all

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UMMA=THE MUSLIM NATION=UMMI=MOMMY

Last week, in a Letter, 138 Muslim clerics sought to find “common ground” but only with Christians. In my view, they did so because Christians are the only religious group that outnumbers the Muslims demographically, by about six to seven hundred million.

In a sense, from a psycho-analytic point of view, this is an example of “literal” or “concrete” thinking. The World Trade Center and The Pentagon are symbols of American might. Hence, destroying these structures is “literally” the same as destroying American infidel power.

But, when one thinks psycho-analytically, nothing is exactly as it seems. Often, such thinking also provokes people's unconscious anxieties about…you guessed it, about their own mothers and their own relations to women.

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