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Chapter 5: War as Righteous Rape and Purification
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"The Emotional Life
of Nations
by Lloyd deMause
Chapter 6: War as Righteous
Rape and Purification
"War!
It meant a purification, a liberation
...and an extraordinary sense of hope"
-Thomas
Mann
Happy people don't start wars. They don't need "purifying"
or "liberation," and their everyday lives are already full of hope
and meaning, so they don't need a war to save them from anything.
What sort of strange emotional disorder is it that war cleanses,
liberates and saves people from? And how can killing, raping and torturing
people be acts that purify and restore hope in life? Obviously war is a serious
psychopathological condition, a recurring human behavior pattern whose motives
and causes have yet to be examined on any but the most superficial levels
of analysis.
STANDARD THEORIES OF CAUSATION OF WAR
All standard theories of war deny that it is an emotional disorder at all. 1
War, unlike individual violence, is usually seen solely as a response to events
outside the individual. Nations that start wars are not considered
emotionally disturbed--they are either considered as rational or they
are "evil," a religious category. Although homicide and suicide
are now studied as clinical disorders, 2 war, unfortunately, is
not.
Most historians of war have given up in advance any attempt
to understand its causes, claiming "it is simply not the historian's
business to give explanations." 3 Genocide, in particular,
appears outside the universe of research into motivations, since if one tries
to understand Holocaust perpetrators, one is said to "give up one's
right to blame them." At best, historians avoid the psychodynamics of
the perpetrators of wars e"
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