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Wendy Doniger's unconscious 'indecent' exposure -- Shree Vinekar
Friday, November 27, 2009
WENDY DONIGER'S UNCONSCIOUS "INDECENT" EXPOSURE
By Shree Vinekar
The Departments of Religious Studies and many other departments have
little to produce of value than vicissitudes of their imagination and
their theorizing about the past, as religion itself is losing much of
its pride of place in the lives of modern generations. In addition,
the Universities, Departments, and Academicians are rated with
statistical measures rather than the depth of their scholarship,
academic integrity, and the value of their contribution to new
knowledge, or even the quality of their work. It is a form of
academic prostitution but the bean counters rate them by the number
of citations in other academicians' publications and peer reviewed
journals and drive their behavior. That has given rise to this
unconscious or conscious conspiracy of academic cartels to publish
something "controversial" not unlike the "yellow journalism" or
sensationalism of the modern day journalists and writers. In this
manner they (the academicians) have devised a way to survive in this
bean counting world or even to get promoted academically, if they are
not full professors, or not tenured ones, etc. That is what I mean by
academic prostitution. When the academicians degenerate to that
level, the "academic freedom" becomes a great defense to promulgate
"crap" like "Paul Courtright, Lane, Kripal, and even Witzel" do.
Wendy has not been any different. Writing style and readability
makes the works attractive and they cater to their admirers and their
"Churchy" or "Eurocentric" pride. The book will sell and there will
be many citations securing Wendy's academic standing in her own
world. To say the least, Aditi Banerjee's response is scholarly and
to the point. However, it is up to us to publicize such responses
widely. As a trained Addiction Psychiatrist, and more familiar with
Psychoanalytic discipline in treating patients rather than doing wild
analysis of myths like these scholars of religion claim to have the
freedom and authority to engage in, let me say that "Kama" is not
"Sex" and "Aasakti" is not addiction.
The concept of "SEX ADDICTION" is a "BASTARDIZED" CONCEPT emerging in
the psychological watered down folklore literature (of the least
trained Chemical Dependency counselors who are not psychoanalysts)
and it is NOT A PSYCHOANALYTIC CONCEPT. To make it worse, it is not
even in the terminology or vocabulary in the traditional English
language nor in the traditional Western world view leave alone in the
psychoanalytic parlance. It is a concoction of the 1980's when the
political power of the alcoholics and drug addicts in the American
Mental Health Field became more and more perceptible and their
concepts were enlarged to treat the "gambling addiction" and later
"sex addiction", expanding the applicability of the twelve step
programs and AA, etc. which are both rationalizations for
irresponsible pleasure-seeking behaviors so the "sufferers" can take
a sick role and claim helplessness. There may or may not be such
thing as a gambling addict, and Yudhishitira cannot be judged to be
one by using the concept of the twentieth century folklore
psychology. Similarly, to say that Lakshmana had knowledge of the
word "Sex Addict" to describe his father "Dasharatha" (when the epic
Ramayana was composed by the sage Valmiki) as one of the "Sex Addicts
of his time" is a wild leap of imagination. There is nothing
psychoanalytic about it and one needs to explore the unconscious of
the writer and see if she is dealing with sex addict ex-husbands, or
friends, and/or has suffered from such ailment some time in her own
life, and has not recognized that her imagination is a product of her
own cultural upbringing and her own past experiences. Fortunately,
psychoanalysis is a tool, and if she wants to use it, she should know
that it reveals the deep recesses of her own Unconscious more that
the reality outside. That is the wonderful power of Freud's discovery
and that the therapist has to be very careful that his/her
interpretations of the patient's problems are not his own projections
from his own past and are truly objective and applicable to the
patient's problems without contamination from his own unconscious.
Wendy is, of course, not trained in these matters, and therefore,
cannot even see how far away from reality she is in her own La-la
Land when she attributes such meaning to the word "Kamaasakta." Her
knowledge of Hinduism with all due respect to her scholarship and her
knowledge of psychoanalysis too are at a very elementary level but
highly inflated in her own self-estimation and in the estimation of
her similarly ignorant colleagues in the field of religious studies
who have traditionally dreaded Freud all these years and denigrated
his theories because the Western Religions are fully rooted in the
concept of sex as "BAD" and the guilt about sex from Adam downwards
to the point of their concept of immaculate conception all indicative
of their pathological handling of "sex" as a sin. When they run into
"Kama Sutra" they cannot place it in proper perspective nor do they
have any healthy perspective for Tantrism (Vama Marga). They do not
realize that their value-based explorations in these areas in Hindu
thought spring from their voyeuristic drives of their own phallic-
oedipal phase and because of their cultural background they lose
their ability to be non-judgmental. That also means they are
exhibitionists at the core when they make wild interpretations
revealing in a strange way their own Unconscious like Paul Courtright
did and no one so far has pinned him down challenged him to see how
much "cock sucking" he was exposed to in his own upbringing and in
his own culture before he wildly proclaimed irresponsibly without any
authentic references that (non-human character like Winnie the Pooh")
"Ganesha" was a "homosexual." Publishing readable material about sex
and such is a million dollar sport in the American culture (by
writing books that are semi-pornographic *a la* Monica Lewinski).
Wendy's unconscious exhibitionism similarly is nothing but a money
making sport and to obtain more academic citations and that is what I
mean by academic prostitution. The more one becomes aware of the
psychopathology of such people like Wendy, more one would need to
keep away from them and leave them alone. These academic prostitutes
like Wendy, Paul Courtright, Lane, Kripal and even Witzel need no
more respect than what they deserve for what they really are. These
"pissing mares and horses" that are pissing on Hinduism are depleted
in their estrogens and testosterones in their stage of life and have
to resort to what Freud called "upward displacement" and be
preoccupied with morbid perverted sexuality in their preoccupations
to get their base pleasure instincts satisfied. They are not true
scholars although they have the credentials in their own disciplines,
and even that is doubtful, but not at all in the field of
psychoanalysis and even less so in Indology. They cannot hold candle
to Sigmund Freud and not even to Joseph Campbell. It is a shame that
they are invited by the Indian scholars to have a dialogue with them
in respectable Indian Universities. I hope you circulate this message
to your readership.
Wendy is exposing strangely her own encounter with exhibitionism, her
own exhibitionistic drives, and exposure to chemical dependency
(addictions) and guilt over her own sexuality from her own past, and
I can bet my booties you will find these all in her background if you
analyze her or if she comes out clean with her background. Thanks for
reading.
Shree Vinekar
End of forwarded message from S. Kalyanaraman
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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In article <4b47b891$0$5322$bbae...@news.suddenlink.net>,
"harmony" <a...@hotmail.com> posted:
>
> wendy is kinda person who feels her g spot touched when she sees florida on
> usa's map.
> Dr. Jai Maharaj posted: