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Circumcision is a Push Towards Genocide

Why Genocides? (the psychoanalytical theory of genocide)

Genocide

(PARIS) - "Crime against humanity is the outcome of a totalitarianism one of the structural aspects of which is abolition of individual consciousness." - Mazarine Pingeot

Of the thirteen genocides of modern times: Congolese (1870), Hereros (1904), Armenians (1915), Jews (1942-45), Tziganes (1942-45), Biafrans (1966-68), Hutus (1972), Kurds (1988), Tutsis (1990), Bosnians (1991-95), Bengalis (1990-2000), inhabitants of Darfur (2003), Rohinghyas (2012), twelve involved circumcised peoples on at least one side and three on both sides. Six genocides have been perpetrated by "un"-circumcised (intacts) and six by circumcised, of which three against intacts and three upon other circumcised. Only that of Tziganes has been perpetrated between intacts. But the Tzigane exception is not quite an exception since a minority of Tziganes are circumcised. We are forced to report the great narrowness of the link between circumcision and genocide.

Among human sciences, psychiatry will speak of collective madness without explaining anything but psychoanalysis can enlighten us. Indeed, Freud stated a theory of racism generated by circumcision, a theory that pushing it up at its end enables to understand the madness of genocide:

The hypothesis that a root of those hatreds of the Jews which occur in such primary ways and lead to such irrational behaviour among the nations of the West, must be sought here too, seems inescapable to me. Circumcision is unconsciously equated with castration1.

This view can be transcended because the unconscious, according to Freud, likens the part to the whole. Therefore, a threat of castration is also a threat of death. Now, exerted on a whole ethnic group, an individual threat of death becomes, through addition, a threat of extermination of the whole group, immediately projected upon the adverse group by the unconscious. So, circumcision is a push towards reciprocal genocide.

Psychoanalysis explains that the abolition of consciousness (Hannah Arendt's triviality of evil) noted by Mazarine Pingeot is in reality a submission to the unconscious that, run by rules as rigorous as that of ethics, ignores good and evil. The banality of circumcision is directly responsible for the multiplication of genocides of which two, reciprocal and atomic, presently threaten, still in contact with circumcision: in Palestine and in Korea.

1 Freud S. Moses and monotheism. 1936. London: The Hogarth press ltd.; 1964. S.E., XXIII, p. 91.

Sigismond (Michel Hervé Navoiseau-Bertaux)

Michel Hervé Navoiseau-Bertaux (Sigismond) is the author of "Sexual mutilation: excision, circumcision, the victims' point of view", for free at circabolition.multiply.com; he is an Independent psychoanalysis researcher (Chercheur indépendant en psychanalyse) based in Paris, France, who works with Salem-News.com to help raise awareness of the massive societal problems connected to the blindly accepted, mutilating practice of circumcision. He says, "Non violence is as fundamental as violence, love and hatred, justice and injustice. But power is at the tip of the tongue and the sweet violence of speech, if one takes hold of it, can silence weapons."

(La non violence est aussi fondamentale que la violence, l'amour et la haine, le juste et l'injuste. Mais le pouvoir est au bout de la langue et la douce violence de la parole, si l'on s'en empare, peut faire taire les armes.)

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Anonymous May 13, 2013 3:19 am (Pacific time)

Congratulations to our dear Editor for his so sharp illustration! :-)


Anonymous May 13, 2013 3:16 am (Pacific time)

Well, people, the question of genocide or not will soon become meaningless because, with the next two ones programmed, it will be humanitycide! Love, and peace if possible, Hervé


Velu Balendran May 12, 2013 2:49 pm (Pacific time)

Why are not Tamils in the Genocide list. At least 40,000 deaths in a matter of months in 2009 is insufficient. Further it is an ongoing genocide!

Namaste Velu,

Trust me the mass murder of Tamils is never lost on us, we consider the subject each and every single day and rarely do 24 hours pass without our publishing another Sri Lanka Tamil story.  Now, while I have referred to the event(s) as Genocide also, and I actually believe the figures from the Bishop in Manar who places the number of Tamil dead around 150,000, according to international law, the crimes against the Tamil population do not meet the technical data required because the ethnic cleansing happened in the context of a war.  Now, I know the cease fire was signed when Rajapaksa took office, and I personally believe the event was a Genocide, however that is the reason.  As you know the Rakhine Buddhists and their '969' organisation are directly targeting Rohingyas and that is why the word Genocide is used.  I commend you either way for asking the question, it is not a closed subject and now those who read this article will be able to at least see this and determine why Tamils are not mentioned in this particular piece.

My thanks to you,

Tim King 

(Also)

 Dr. Malathy, a key member of the NESoHR and the author of  'A Fleeting Moment in my County', a survivor of the Genocide in Vanni  questions why not to call a genocide a genocide.
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