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Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?
\n\u2014Donald Trump, as reported in The Washington Post<\/i><\/p>\n

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Q. <\/i>What is<\/i> a \u201cshithole\u201d?
\nA. <\/i>It is an anus<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Life is painful and full of disappointment. The French psychoanalyst Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, one of the great forgotten geniuses of the twentieth century, identified a bit of make-believe that might comfort a hurt, disappointed child: \u201cthe illusion that, with his pregenital sexuality, his immature and sterile penis, he is an adequate sexual partner for his mother and has nothing to envy in his father \u2026 so that he may be able to pretend to himself and to others that his pregenital sexuality is equal, if not superior, to genitality.\u201d Today we revisit Chasseguet-Smirgel\u2019s 1984 masterpiece, Creativity and Perversion<\/i>. It is important to utter her meaning again in our time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chasseguet-Smirgel believed that the male child\u2019s mechanism for pretending, for transforming his inferior prepubescence into sexual potency (\u201cplease inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!\u201d), was based on tools he had at hand and based on processes in his own body. \u201cAll that is taboo, forbidden or sacred is devoured by the digestive tract, an enormous grinding machine disintegrating the molecules of the mass thus obtained in order to reduce it to excrement \u2026 One basic intention: to reduce the universe to faeces, or rather to annihilate the universe of differences (the genital universe) and put in its place the anal universe in which all particles are equal and interchangeable.\u201d \u201cIn reality, in order to have a genital penis and to procreate, it is necessary to grow up, to mature, to wait, whereas\u00a0faeces are a production common to adult and child, woman and man. The two differences\u2014between the sexes and between generations\u2014are abolished at the anal level. Time is wiped out.\u201d<\/p>\n

(For more on the bending of space-time, black-hole\/shithole psychodynamics, and the anal destruction of difference, read my 2017 piece<\/a> for the Daily<\/i>.)<\/p>\n

Psychotherapist Patricia Gosling writes that Chasseguet-Smirgel \u201cthinks that perversion constitutes a universal temptation \u2026 to attack reality by attempting to dissolve or deny all limits and boundaries and all differences. It wishes to rise above the ordinary laws of time and space \u2026 the construction of a substitute reality where anything can become anything else as a defense against the pain of having to accept one\u2019s relative place in reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was never intimidated by my father.\u201d \u2014Donald Trump, The Art of the Deal<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cBecause he has not projected his Ego Ideal onto his father and genitality, he has not introjected his father\u2019s genital attributes. The resulting identification gaps constitute a major obstacle to a real sublimation process. Idealization tends more toward aestheticism than creation, and when creation nevertheless develops, it often bears the stamp of aestheticism.\u201d \u2014Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel<\/p>\n

What Chasseguet-Smirgel means by \u201caestheticism\u201d here is \u201cthe need to idealize the environment, the scenery \u2026 Everything that surrounds the Ego is like a mirror in which it is reflected. This mirror must be refined, and in exquisite taste in order to disguise anality, covering it with a thousand glittering jewels.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat White House is a real dump.\u201d \u2014Donald Trump, reported by USA Today<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cUnder President Donald Trump, the White House will have new carpets, chairs with clawed feet, and plenty of golden eagles for decorations.\u201d \u2014Reported by Business Insider<\/i><\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ideal and idealistic conception of art corresponds to the fantasy of an Ideal Ego, dissatisfied with its successive incarnations, incapable of recovering its lost perfection, the one it had at the dawn of life. At the same time, it tries to place the subject in the centre of a \u2018charmed circle\u2019 \u2026 His Ego, basking in the wonderful light that surrounds it, will be thereby transfigured \u2026 This scenery gets to express itself, so to speak, in the subject\u2019s Ego thus idealized.\u201d \u2014JCS<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe fear that anality may be unmasked, and, with it, the illusion upon which psycho-sexuality has erected itself, emerges explosively in The Picture of Dorian Gray. <\/i>You surely are familiar with the plot. A handsome young man possesses a portrait of himself painted by a friend. Whereas his features remain amazingly youthful as the years go by, in spite of his progressive descent into infamy, it is the portrait that alters and ages, until it is repulsive to behold. Here, idealization appears clearly as a means of masking sadism and anality \u2026 Anality is not so much changed by the idealization process as it is merely covered with a coating of glittering jewels.\u201d \u2014JCS<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat does \u2018disguised\u2019 mean? I am under the impression that these presentations are marked with the sign contrary to that of the original presentations. The shining and the glittering are the opposite of the dull and the uniform \u2026 excrement \u2026 It is possible to detect anality not only behind the glittering ornament, but also in its very brilliancy.\u201d \u2014JCS<\/p>\n

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\u201cIdealization implies extreme closeness to what is being masked. It is an unstable and fragile process \u2026 ever-near persecution. This is because, at any time, anality threatens to burst through the thin, glittering shell covering it and to reappear in broad daylight, like the hideous corpse of a drowning victim coming back to the surface, a process which is very clearly described at the end of The Picture of Dorian Gray \u2026 <\/i>Idealization is only a thin film disguising an unchanged material, a mechanism aiming at masking the self.\u201d \u2014JCS<\/p>\n

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God, what a rotten time we are living in. Won\u2019t it be lovely when the Hittite agricultural god Telipinus returns to remind us of the positive<\/i> connotations of the phallus, as psychoanalyst Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca lists them: \u201cthe production of pleasure, research, nourishment, creativity, loss of self-control, fertilization, not to mention healthy exhibitionism\u201d? To remind us of katsujinken<\/i>, the sword that gives<\/i> life?<\/p>\n

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In the next article in this series, we will review Chasseguet-Smirgel\u2019s \u201cA Short Essay on the Apocalypse,\u201d moving on from shitholes and fecal pseudo phalluses to blood and semen; to the alt-right insult cuckservative<\/i> and to the popular accusation \u201chey cuck how many illegals did you let come in your wife today\u201d as a translation of how many alien bodies have penetrated the tribe or the motherland<\/i>; <\/i>to \u201cbuild that wall\u201d as an attempt to seal the mother\u2019s body and \u201clock her up\u201d <\/i>(in a burka, maybe?); and to our old friend Blut und Boden<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Until then, try to enjoy constant terror of the overfilled, exploding body\u2014of all humanity perishing in a child\u2019s big-button, anal-sadistic nuclear tantrum.<\/p>\n

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J. D. Daniels is the winner of a Whiting Award and <\/i>The Paris Review\u2019s Terry Southern Prize.\u00a0His recent work appears in <\/i>Esquire, the<\/i>\u00a0Los Angeles Review of Books, and <\/i>the<\/em>\u00a0Oxford American. His collection <\/i>The Correspondence was released this month in paperback by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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