PsychSphere
Individual & cross-cultural Psychodynamics. Palestine. Power, Occupation, Colonialism. Mass Pathology, Malignant Narcissism, Israel. Psychoanalysis & Feminism. Subaltern Identities.
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Part I (opens the original)
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Part I of this 2-part series looks at Western myths of civilization and how they are deployed to protect the worst imperialist projects. Part II looks at today’s regressive white male pro-“Israel” supporter, sometimes known as the male “Karen”, a cultural trope denoting the ultimate embodiment of white privilege.Enlightenment Myths, the Western Romanticization of Occupation and Zionism’s Backward “Stupidity”Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, examines the significance of choice an
Brown Scars, White Tears, Pink Rage (opens the original)
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Pink and the Politics of PowerSocial media is ablaze with the recent controversy involving musicians Pink, Ed Sheeran and Macklemore, and their actions with respect to humanity, genocide and ethnic cleansing; who has stood on the right side and who has revealed their true colours, whether green for money, yellow for cowardice, red for blood – or the colour Pink, that of performative feminism that amplifies the asymmetries of political power whilst professing to challenge it.One thing is certain
Paid Subscriptions Are Back On (opens the original)
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Paid subscriptions are back on. Nothing changes for free readers — every post stays free, as always.If you pledge, 100% goes to Hope and Play, a UK-registered charity (no. 1125609) working with children in Gaza and the West Bank — trauma therapy, tent schools, safe spaces.
Bedtime Stories: Empathy in the time of Genocide (opens the original)
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On Empathy, Privilege and GenocideRecently I listened to a young middle class English mother complaining to the effect of, a stranger in a public place – could be the shopping queue or the park or a bus – didn’t smile or express friendly acknowledgment of her with her young children. Apparently, that kind of lack of acknowledgment towards cuddly pets and children constituted evidence of an unfriendly nature.This kind of myopic fishbowl perspective is actually typical of privileged societies wher
Cowboys and Indians, Down the Rabbi Hole and The Mad Squatters Tea Party (opens the original)
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Cowboys and IndiansThis always reflected the binaries coded into other seemingly innocuous childhood “games” such as “cops and robbers”, with its implicit assumption of good vs evil. These simplistic polarisations fed to children lay down templates that are then wired into our perceptions of the world.It is ironic therefore, that in our “woke” and “progressive’ society that eschews such “culturally insensitive” tropes, we are witnessing a growing global and political polarisation along racial, e
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