Love’s Body Research w/ Abe Zucca & Norman O. Brown

Ajouté : 2026-05-13

[00:01:37]First story.

[00:01:50]Freud's myth.

[00:01:53]Liberty.

[00:01:56]Liberty. Liberty.

[00:02:06]Freud's myth of the rebellion.

[00:02:11]The rebellion of the sons.

[00:02:15]the sons against the father.

[00:02:20]In the primal prehistoric horror is not a historical explanation of origins but a suprahistorical archetype.

[00:02:34]A suprahistorical archetype.

[00:02:42]Eternally recurrent, a myth, an old old story.

[00:03:02]Freud seems to project into prehistoric times the constitutional crisis of 17th century England.

[00:03:11]The primal father is absolute monarch.

[00:03:16]Absolute monarch of the horde. The females are his property.

[00:03:22]The sons form a conspiracy to overthrow the depot and in the end substitute a social contract with equal rights for all.

[00:03:36]This anacronistic history directs us to look for the reoccurrence of the archetype, the reoccurring archetype.

[00:03:52]In the first treaties of civil government, Loach attacks Sir Robert Filmer's defense of absolute monarchy entitled patriarcha.

[00:04:05]Sir Robert Filmer like Freud identifies patriarchy and monarchy political and paternal power.

[00:04:15]Filmer like Freud derives constitutional structure from a primal or prehistoric mystical mythical family from the paternal powers of our father Adam.

[00:04:30]Adam like Freud Filmer attributes to the primal father unlimited power over his sons including the power and propensity to castrate them.

[00:04:44]Lock contradicts Filmer's primal fatherhood.

[00:04:50]A strange kind of doineering phantom called the fatherhood. He says a gigantic form with the postulate of all men in the primal state of nature free and equal to vindicate liberty is to vindicate the children liy the sons against paternal despatism lock kills filmer's fatherhood lays that phantom the battle of books reenacts Freud's primal crime crime.

[00:05:26]The battle of books reenacts Freud's primal crime.

[00:05:36]Liberty means equality among the brothers sons.

[00:05:41]Lock rejects Filmer's role of promogenitor which transmits the full power of father Adam to one of his sons and makes one brother the father of his brethren.

[00:05:59]How can a man get power not only over his own children but over his brethren?

[00:06:03]Asks Lock.

[00:06:06]Brother, he says, brother is the name of friendship and equality and not of jurisdiction and authority.

[00:06:18]Against Filmer's fatherhood, Lach champions liberty, equality, fraternity.

[00:06:24]Loach has father Adam's property divided equally among all his sons.

[00:06:30]Liberty, equality is all a dispute over the inheritance of the paternal estate.

[00:06:42]But the equality of brotherhood is a leveling in the presence of a father.

[00:06:48]It is a way of dividing what belongs to a father.

[00:06:53]The father's equal love.

[00:06:56]blocks equality in the state of nature belongs to men as sons of God.

[00:07:03]Liberty means sunship.

[00:07:07]Sunship to make all men free and equal in the state of nature.

[00:07:14]Lo allows no man the status of father and makes all men sons of the heavenly father.

[00:07:23]The phantom of fatherhood is banished from the earth and elevated to the skies.

[00:07:30]The state of nature has a law to govern it and reason which the law teaches all mankind who will be but consulted that being equal and independent.

[00:07:44]No one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

[00:07:49]For men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent and infinitely wise maker, all the servants of one sovereign master sent into the world by his order and about his business.

[00:08:04]They are his property.

[00:08:07]Procreative power itself is transferred from the earthly to the heavenly father.

[00:08:12]The parents are only guardians of the children they had for forgotten begotten not as their own workmanship but as the workmanship of their own maker the almighty God is the author and giver of life.

[00:08:31]Parents are only the guardians of their children.

[00:08:35]Fathers are not even fathers of their children.

[00:08:38]Filmer's sons were subject to castration.

[00:08:42]Lock castrates the earthly fathers.

[00:08:46]Thus, the defense of sunship turns into the discovery of another father. The real father.

[00:08:53]And the real question in politics is Jesus question. Who is my father?

[00:09:04]Here is the inner contradiction in liberty.

[00:09:14]Liberty, equality, and fraternity.

[00:09:18]Sunship and brotherhood are espoused against fatherhood.

[00:09:22]But without a father, there can be no sons or brothers.

[00:09:27]Lock sons like Freuds cannot free themselves from father psychology and are crucified.

[00:09:34]Crucified by the contradictory commands.

[00:09:40]The commands issuing from Freudian super ego which says both thou shalt be like the father and thou shall not be like the father. That is many things are his prerogative.

[00:09:55]Fraternal organization in the body politic corresponds to ego organization in the body physical.

[00:10:04]As fraternal organization convertly assumes a father, ego organization covertly assumes a super ego.

[00:10:16]The dispute between fathers and sons is over property.

[00:10:21]In Filmer's patriarchal system, paternal power is a property in one's own children.

[00:10:35]To be the subject of a king is the same as to be the son of a father.

[00:10:41]And to be a son is the same as to be a slave.

[00:10:45]A libertas is what distinguishes the sons in the family from the slaves.

[00:10:54]Lach vindicates the rights of the sons, giving each one the fundamental right of property in his own person.

[00:11:01]The right not to be a slave.

[00:11:05]At the root, liberty and personal property are identical.

[00:11:10]and identity also with sunship.

[00:11:13]But at the same time, the same inner contradiction property essentially belongs to a father.

[00:11:20]It finally turns out that the property holders Loach undertook to defend own nothing.

[00:11:26]It all belongs to the heavenly father.

[00:11:30]However, in respect of one another, men may be allowed to have property in their distinct proportions.

[00:11:37]Yet in respect of God, the maker of heaven and earth, who is the sole lord and proprietor of the whole world, man's property in the creatures is nothing but that liberty to use them, which God has permitted.

[00:11:54]It is God's ownership of us who are therefore his slaves, which excludes slavery as a relation between men.

[00:12:06]Sunship or brotherhood freed from its secret bondage to the father principle.

[00:12:14]Sons after the order of Mel Sedc without father without mother without genealogy having neither beginning of days nor ends of life but made like unto the son of God would be free from the principle of private property.

[00:12:33]And in the first form of Christianity, the brethren had all things common.

[00:12:38]Sons without fathers share everything and own nothing.

[00:12:42]That brethren, as Plato saw, should have all things in common, including wives.

[00:12:49]Lock's commitment to brotherhood is deep enough to produce another inner contradiction, communism and private property.

[00:12:59]The world was given to the children of men in common.

[00:13:03]He says in one sentence he affirms both principles though the things of nature are given in common. Man by being master of himself and proprietor of his own person and the action or labor had still in himself the great foundation of property as in lock and filmer. own Plato and Aristotle, the two giant forms.

[00:13:27]Fatherhood and brotherhood enjoy another incarnation in another phantom battle.

[00:13:33]In these reincarnations, the archetype wear different masks.

[00:13:38]In Plato and Aristotle, we can discern fatherhood and brotherhood in the guise of the family and the division of labor as alternative principles of social organization.

[00:13:52]Aristotle displays the state as the final and perfected expression of the same principal organization which constructs the patriarchal family.

[00:14:02]First a house and a wife and an ox, then a collection of households and a village, then a collection of villages.

[00:14:20]The cement which binds the wider collection together is the same which binds the family.

[00:14:26]Kinship the patriarchal family supplies the primal model for political government.

[00:14:33]The first form of government is kingship because families are always monarchally governed.

[00:14:42]The essence of government is domination rule.

[00:14:46]In the family, the domination of male over female, parent over child, master over slave.

[00:14:54]Plato hears a different drummer in his analysis of the elements of social organization.

[00:15:01]He never even mentions the family.

[00:15:05]Instead, his basic principle of social organization is the division of labor and professional specialization.

[00:15:14]Each doing the one thing for which he is naturally fitted and united with others by mutual exchange and organic interdependence and the perfect realization of potentialities inherent in the principle of social organization.

[00:15:32]Plato's ideal state requires the abolition of the family.

[00:15:37]In Plato, the abolition of the family accompanies the abolition of property.

[00:15:42]property is patriarchal, communism fraternal.

[00:15:46]So also in Marxism, angles connected the family with private property in the state.

[00:15:52]Society has been patriarchal will become fraternal.

[00:15:57]Marxism in the succession to lock picks up the cause of brotherhood.

[00:16:02]The history of Marxism shows how hard it is to kill the father, to get rid of the family, private property in the state.

[00:16:13]What is the division of labor?

[00:16:16]Durkheim in his book on the division of labor saw two distinct principles antagonistic and complimentary is warp and woof of human social organization which he called mechanical and organic solidarity.

[00:16:33]Mechanical solidarity is union.

[00:16:46]It finds the Claire's expression in kinship.

[00:16:51]Organic solidarity is union based on differentiation and organic interdependence.

[00:16:58]Its expression is the division of labor.

[00:17:02]Durkheim associates the mechanical solidarity not only with the family but also with the collective conscience and with criminal law as the repressive system.

[00:17:15]In Freudian terms, the superego and the father.

[00:17:20]Organic solidarity. On the other hand, he associates with civil law which sustains persons, properties and contracts on the basis of equality and equity.

[00:17:34]The group psychology and the analysis of the ego Freud dumbates the distinction between two archetypes of social psychology.

[00:17:44]The individual psychology which in the primal horde belongs to the father alone and the group psychology of the sons or brothers fatherhood and brotherhood are the archetypes brooding in the background of s sociological abstractions as durkheime's mechanical and organic solidarity or geeks here usaft the imperial and fraternal principles which dialectically combine to weave the changing fabric work of western social corporate bodies.

[00:18:19]It is the specific gift of psychoanalysis to see behind these sociological abstractions the human face and their name is fatherhood and brotherhood lock suggests that fraternity is formed not by birth but by election by contract.

[00:18:42]Plato's fraternity based on the division of labor excludes the family.

[00:18:52]Durkheim's organic solidarity is the opposite of kinship.

[00:18:59]This brotherhood is not made inside the family nor by the father. Is not born of the flesh but of the spirit. Is not natural but artificial.

[00:19:13]or so would say it is based on will in the vocabulary of Freud's totem and taboo.

[00:19:19]It is toemic brotherhood.

[00:19:23]In toemic brotherhood, the bond which unites the brothers is not family relationship or blood kinship.

[00:19:31]The totem clan is defined by the peculiar relation to its particular totem animal, plant or object by virtue of which they are of one body and have one common totem ancestor.

[00:19:46]The body is mystical and the ancestor mythical.

[00:19:53]Only in the latest of his tellings of the story, Moses and Monotheus and Freud distinguish the brotherhood from the natural relation among the sons inside the family.

[00:20:04]In that version, the brotherhood comes into being after the sons are expelled from the family.

[00:20:10]When they club together in the wilderness, the social contract perpetuates the attachment that had grown up among them during the time of their exile.

[00:20:22]They club together in the fatherless wilderness.

[00:20:27]It is a fraternity of young men in college away from home.

[00:20:32]The artifice that makes the brotherhood the social contract is initiation.

[00:20:41]If the story is to be told in the form of anthropology, then the sons and brothers are to be found not inside the family, but in the clubs or fraternities or secret societies, which are not merely outside the family, but rather diametrically contradicted.

[00:21:03]In the family, there is a natural symbiosis of those who have a natural need for each other, male and female, parent and child.

[00:21:16]The fraternity or club or secret society strives to put us under what is joined in the family, male and female, parent and child.

[00:21:27]in primitive secret societies and puberty rights.

[00:21:31]The persistent tendencies to separate the sexes and the generations to form homosexual and co-eval groupings.

[00:21:41]Besides the natural union of the sexes in the family of which Aristotle speaks, there is also unconscious hostility between the sexes.

[00:21:51]An archaic reaction of enimity, taboos which prescribe sexual separation, mutual avoidance, the castration complex.

[00:22:03]Without an understanding of the scenic side of sexuality, there's no understanding of politics.

[00:22:10]Conventional Anglo-Saxon political theory dismissing Nazism as an irrelevant aberration, a lunatic episode in the history of the West.

[00:22:21]is all patriarchal and the Greek polus where it all begins.

[00:22:27]Historians and philosophers see only fatherhood in the family.

[00:22:31]The theory and Aristotle's modernized by fustell de kolange.

[00:22:37]The minority opposition to the orthodox line of patriarchal interpretation has clustered around the hypothesis of the contrary matriarchal factor.

[00:22:50]There is a connection between matriarchy and fraternity even as there is an alliance between mother earth and the band of brothers led by Kronos to castrate father sky.

[00:23:03]But Freud directs us to the idea that the true the only contrary of patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity.

[00:23:24]I love you.