The two dominant personality theories of the twentieth century, the Freudian and Adlerian psychoanalytic models, provided theoretical frameworks for understanding bigotry and fascism as forms of individual and collective neurotic delusions Which was (and is) collective bovine scatology.
The simple truth is: human beings are inherently sinful and wicked.
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Jeremiah 17:9
Without the restraining moral influence of Almighty God, humanity rapidly descends into incredible depravity, cruelty, malice, torture, murder, rape, and mayhem.
Without God, there is no hope for humanity.
People are still surprised that when God is thrown out of any society, that very society accelerates to Hell on earth with incredible speed.
This doesn't take a Psychologist or Psychiatrist to understand. God's word is clear.
It is only by God's grace and mercy (and direct intervention) that humanity is still around at all.
I believe that when Christ comes, and snatches away His own, the world will descend into unbelievable pain and evil in a very, very, very short time.
Although Freud and Adler agreed on the existence of unconscious fear as the core of neurotic anxiety, they had different explanations for it. Freud posited that bigotry arises when a child internalizes the prejudices of the father in order to resolve unconscious sexual conflicts in the process of superego formation. This thwarted “will to pleasure” is projected as hatred onto a scapegoat minority. Culturally, fear becomes fascistic, involving rigid group conformity against a common enemy. Freud’s model is obsolete. Anderson Cooper, and the Manhattan micro-niche he typifies, is not anxiously reacting to an overbearing father-figure. It is the extreme opposite. Mr. Cooper is the son of a fantastically permissive brand of humanism. The only thing he has to feel guilty about is guilt itself.
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Amusing . . . I’ll take the writer’s word for the Freudian analysis and it seems like she is dead on in saying that this analysis was reacting to one type of era/father (a moralistic German culture with traditionally “overbearing” fathers). What I found amusing was the Christian analysis of a “sin nature” playing itself out explains our current tendencies and the past tendencies without need for change in the analysis over time.
Hope I’ve been clear.