Any ideas about this writing? the original is not in English and it may not be a very good translation
From the book
Sufism and Transpersonal Psychology
Mustafa Merter, M.D
(Besides Karl Marx and C.Darwin) If we think that Sigmund Freud was a scientific figure who shaped the modern era’s world view, formed the psychological construction of the age, developed the “civilization of psychoanalysis” we can estimate how much damage his pessimist, human degrading and so called scientific and speculative derangement has done. If we want to understand the dynamics of the “modern consumerist” society which is headed towards self-destruction and find solutions we have to understand the seeds these thinkers sowed.
While reading these lines it is not possible to say “who cares about Freud?” unfortunately. Freud and psychoanalysis, be it Freudian or not, has deeply effected the Western world’s thought construction and its view about the world and mankind. This effect is not limited only with the western world. It spreads to the whole world especially with the help of Hollywood film industry and the media.
For example let’s give some examples about Freud’s so called insufficiency of woman, -about the “modern, contemporary, free” woman.
As Freud suggested a miserable woman who has believed or has been led to believe that she has an inherent insufficiency by birth (penis envy!) will try to overcome this inadequacy all her life. She can do it in two ways.
If a woman, against her inherent nature, pursues material power, effectiveness, position (rank) and authority in an extreme manner she will unknowingly become “ manlike”, will turn in to a caricature of man. Because she has lost her noble qualities, like her wisdom, creativity, intuitiveness and compassion by living a manlike existence she gradually becomes distant from her real nature and unknowingly betrays it. ( to understand what I mean you can reflect on the women TV announcers on western news channels)
As a result of this, “emancipated”, “manlike women” are gradually increasing in number in the Western world and the US. This “manlike woman” trying to overcome men in every field attempts to compensate her complex of not having a penis by her manly achievements in the world of men.
For these women, man-woman relationships turn into a compulsory “satisfaction of the impulses”. Because she betrays her inherent nature she hates both herself and the men. Some of them choose a bisexual way of life. Anonymous/promiscuous sexuality, one night stands, temporary relationships without any commitment, with a compulsive/impulsive reflex are all done for “relief”. Long-term and consistent relationships feels boring, restricting and oppressive. Because normal sexuality will not be satisfying after a while, they resort to pervert ways of sexuality. Sadism, masochism, fetishism, group sex, stimulant drug use are all pursuits to add spice to this monotony. For the woman who has been prisoned on this level because she is not able to live the elegant and inherent emotions, all these are a struggle for salvation. If she terribly wants a child she can go to a bar, choose a “stallion man” become pregnant and deliberately does not tell the child who his/her father is. She does not tell because she does not want to take the responsibility of the relationship. This exteremely egoist attitude (I do not know which moral code is in harmony with this approach of leaving a child without a father ) which began in California and then spread to the whole world is not a way of life that is shared by a small group of people anymore but a pervert way of behavior that is gradually expanding in the world. Unfortunately the “psychoanalysis civilization” we live in has detached woman from her essential qualities-values and castrated her.
This “worthless woman” who is gradually becoming manlike, starts to expose herself in the struggle of becoming valuable. With her inherent “insufficiency” (according to Freud) woman, in the name of becoming valuable should expose her femininity excessively, should try to be honorable by exposing her body’s private parts in the world of men. In fact a tragic process is going on here regarding the human values. In the name of becoming valuable, the so called independent/free “contemporary” woman of the Western world, unknowingly becomes a sex object and degrades to a level where she “markets” her body. And the worst is, at the expense of ignoring her essence, she becomes distant to her soul and is alienated to herself.
The nude girls on the advertisement industry’s billboards and TV are tragic examples. Usually when it is not a significant other or a close relative we do not reflect on it and ignore the importance of the issue by a simple defense mechanism. But this attitude is a big mistake and unjust.
Degraded to a level of an object, saperated form her naturalness with make up and surgery, exposing her most sacred parts like flesh in a butcher’s window, the sex object “modern/contemporary” woman is in fact a tragedy for humankind. Even tough “they” don’t know or have forgotten that they know, we know what a woman is as it is expressed in the lines of Rumi.
A woman is the light of God, not a date. She is like the creator, not the created!”
(Rumi, Mathnavi, p.195. MEB Publications)
Psychoanalysis and dream interpretation are vitally important approaches regarding the psychological health of societies. The analysis of human psyche is a very important issue and it can not be analyzed by palliative and speculative methods. A wrong approach may shake the foundations of a society and the building may collapse. As we will mention at the end of the book the “California Syndrome” may dominate the whole world.
From the book
Sufism and Transpersonal Psychology
Mustafa Merter, M.D
(Besides Karl Marx and C.Darwin) If we think that Sigmund Freud was a scientific figure who shaped the modern era’s world view, formed the psychological construction of the age, developed the “civilization of psychoanalysis” we can estimate how much damage his pessimist, human degrading and so called scientific and speculative derangement has done. If we want to understand the dynamics of the “modern consumerist” society which is headed towards self-destruction and find solutions we have to understand the seeds these thinkers sowed.
While reading these lines it is not possible to say “who cares about Freud?” unfortunately. Freud and psychoanalysis, be it Freudian or not, has deeply effected the Western world’s thought construction and its view about the world and mankind. This effect is not limited only with the western world. It spreads to the whole world especially with the help of Hollywood film industry and the media.
For example let’s give some examples about Freud’s so called insufficiency of woman, -about the “modern, contemporary, free” woman.
As Freud suggested a miserable woman who has believed or has been led to believe that she has an inherent insufficiency by birth (penis envy!) will try to overcome this inadequacy all her life. She can do it in two ways.
If a woman, against her inherent nature, pursues material power, effectiveness, position (rank) and authority in an extreme manner she will unknowingly become “ manlike”, will turn in to a caricature of man. Because she has lost her noble qualities, like her wisdom, creativity, intuitiveness and compassion by living a manlike existence she gradually becomes distant from her real nature and unknowingly betrays it. ( to understand what I mean you can reflect on the women TV announcers on western news channels)
As a result of this, “emancipated”, “manlike women” are gradually increasing in number in the Western world and the US. This “manlike woman” trying to overcome men in every field attempts to compensate her complex of not having a penis by her manly achievements in the world of men.
For these women, man-woman relationships turn into a compulsory “satisfaction of the impulses”. Because she betrays her inherent nature she hates both herself and the men. Some of them choose a bisexual way of life. Anonymous/promiscuous sexuality, one night stands, temporary relationships without any commitment, with a compulsive/impulsive reflex are all done for “relief”. Long-term and consistent relationships feels boring, restricting and oppressive. Because normal sexuality will not be satisfying after a while, they resort to pervert ways of sexuality. Sadism, masochism, fetishism, group sex, stimulant drug use are all pursuits to add spice to this monotony. For the woman who has been prisoned on this level because she is not able to live the elegant and inherent emotions, all these are a struggle for salvation. If she terribly wants a child she can go to a bar, choose a “stallion man” become pregnant and deliberately does not tell the child who his/her father is. She does not tell because she does not want to take the responsibility of the relationship. This exteremely egoist attitude (I do not know which moral code is in harmony with this approach of leaving a child without a father ) which began in California and then spread to the whole world is not a way of life that is shared by a small group of people anymore but a pervert way of behavior that is gradually expanding in the world. Unfortunately the “psychoanalysis civilization” we live in has detached woman from her essential qualities-values and castrated her.
This “worthless woman” who is gradually becoming manlike, starts to expose herself in the struggle of becoming valuable. With her inherent “insufficiency” (according to Freud) woman, in the name of becoming valuable should expose her femininity excessively, should try to be honorable by exposing her body’s private parts in the world of men. In fact a tragic process is going on here regarding the human values. In the name of becoming valuable, the so called independent/free “contemporary” woman of the Western world, unknowingly becomes a sex object and degrades to a level where she “markets” her body. And the worst is, at the expense of ignoring her essence, she becomes distant to her soul and is alienated to herself.
The nude girls on the advertisement industry’s billboards and TV are tragic examples. Usually when it is not a significant other or a close relative we do not reflect on it and ignore the importance of the issue by a simple defense mechanism. But this attitude is a big mistake and unjust.
Degraded to a level of an object, saperated form her naturalness with make up and surgery, exposing her most sacred parts like flesh in a butcher’s window, the sex object “modern/contemporary” woman is in fact a tragedy for humankind. Even tough “they” don’t know or have forgotten that they know, we know what a woman is as it is expressed in the lines of Rumi.
A woman is the light of God, not a date. She is like the creator, not the created!”
(Rumi, Mathnavi, p.195. MEB Publications)
Psychoanalysis and dream interpretation are vitally important approaches regarding the psychological health of societies. The analysis of human psyche is a very important issue and it can not be analyzed by palliative and speculative methods. A wrong approach may shake the foundations of a society and the building may collapse. As we will mention at the end of the book the “California Syndrome” may dominate the whole world.
