#castration complex

[after-zeno]

{ifag note} Did Robespierre, revolutionary, have a castration complex?

Image: Maximilien Robespierre bust sculpted from terracotta by Claude-André Deseine 1791 based on watching him speak to the Jacobin Club.

Extract #1

Does Robespierre’s “childhood [especially the collapse of his family when he was six] give us the clues to the Robespierre enigma: the young man who articulated the highest ideals of individual rights, tolerance and democracy in 1789 but who was a prominent member of a government in 1794 which abused civil liberties, incarcerated many thousands of “suspects” and oversaw thousands of executions which can only be described as political?

Extract#2

“Assertions about Robespierre’s intimate life have varied wildly....The psychoanalyst Jean Artarit is at an extreme, offering the insight that Robespierre’s misspelling in an electoral pamphlet of a shoemaker’s name Lantillette as Languillette (“baby eel”) shows a longing to cut off the penis. For Robespierre was apparently [according to Artarit] a repressed homosexual with a castration complex, a misogynist and pathological narcissist constantly searching for a good father and an all-powerful mother”.

Extracts from Peter McPhee’s ‘Integrating Private and Public in the Life of Maximilien Robespierre‘ in his academic biography of the revolutionary including the reference to Jean Artarit, Maximilien Robespierre ou l’impossible filiation (Paris, 2003), for example, 55, 66, 68, 79, 81, 106-7, 112-14, 170, 366-67.

Execution of Robespierre, Saint Just and others 28 July 1794. Maximilien Robespierre,1758-1794. Jacobin leader during French Revolution. Louis Antoine Leon Saint-Just,1767-1794.French politician. Engraved by Jonnard after H. Renaud. From ‘Histoire de la Revolution by Louis Blanc.

Image: sonofhistory.tumblr.com via for-the-duke-of-paris.tumblr.com

[whentheynyan]

Desire, born with language, allows the possibility of transcending the instinctual and the imaginary, but its point of reference continually returns to the traumatic moment of its birth: the castration complex.

[pathetero]

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[david-the-psalmist]

When you realize that your father wasn’t present long enough to allow your sexuality to develop properly according to Freudian psychoanalytic theories and then realize that you had to carry out your own as well as your brother’s metaphoric castrations by autotomizing two limbs and have in the process effectively become your own father who you also hate.

[whentheynyan]

The male unconscious has two avenues of escape from this castration anxiety: preoccupation with the re-enactment of the original trauma [...] or else complete disavowal of castration by the substitution of a fetish

[brwwngrl666-blog]

“Type 6″, 2015

[thegoodenoughblogger]

whereas the castration / privation of the mother which comes about in the second time of the Oedipus complex negates the verb 'to have' (the mother does not have the phallus), the castration of the subject in the third time of the Oedipus complex negates the verb 'to be' (the subject must renounce his attempts to be the phallus for the mother).

Dylan Evans, An introductory dictionary of Lacanian psychoanalysis