Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Deconstructing "fucking assholes"

Theory of cursing (psychosemiotics)

"fucking asshole(s)" (psychic calamity)

Cursing tokens used to castigate others often have psychosexual roots: "prick", "cunt", "pussy", "asshole", "piece of shit", "fucker", etc., picked up during pre-pubertal development and weilded later, as vicious perjoratives, to demonstrate mastery of verbal recollection of the early feeling, given the acquired hormonal cathectic/ discharge to the fantasy. "That's how you make me feel, and here's the way I deal with that. yrghs yrggh yrghgh."

Leaving aside the M-F curse abomination, "Fucking asshole", the meme, is particularly interesting in this respect. As a verb, it brings the Oedipal fantasy to lips, tongue mouth-movement, acted out later in later genital sexuality, sustained as preferred mode by male homosexuals. I never thought of it both ways until now. Use of the terms was acquired separately, as I remember, with no more connection than a normal teenage boy, I guess, going through "I'd love to cut Coach Kelly's wife's grass yuk yuk" lifestage. The little construct gained by conjoining them was mostly an in-deepest-reserve grinner, hardly to be taken 'literally' (whatever that means) that "God damn Son-of-a-Bitch," or other street talk, mostly avoided to be sure. But in this case, the double verb-noun overlay -- "fucking assholes": what we do; "fucking assholes" what homosexuals could be called for what they do, but that would "go too far", given its ultra-pejorative cut-off, so is blocked from collective consciousness by "reaction formation" mechanism ("No! No! WE LOVE 'EM!"), re-inforced in MSM public discourse by Political Correctness. But thar she stands: the ultimate deep-throat/livegoat/verb-noun grammatical loop from the past into the present, through the unconscious, by "gay marriage." Used with each other, in all likelihood, as a near term with various nuances, it is a mark of repression to disconnect "Gay marriage" from "fucking assholes". I therefore claim my right under free speech to use the meme publically, if pressed to affirm "gay marriage". It will be a spontaneous hoot, a laugh-gimmick, a yuk at their expense elicited by the double meaning. It is only a curse if so taken by those over whom words for sexual acts are still over-cathected. That is the flipside of PC.

Along another line through the Unconscious as metaphysical container of tokenspace, lies the Greek "phil (-ic)" vs "phob (-ic)" contrast, as attractive-repellant, love-hate psychic opposites. As in "homo-" ("homophilia", "homophobia"), and "Judaeo-" ("Judaeophilia", "Judaeophobia" - 'anti-Semidtism' ). "Phobias", as irrational fears or compulsions (fering 'if nots') was one of the first instinctual quirks Freud analyzed. Broadly reconstructed for present purposes, one neuro-psychic path of cathectis has been blocked, so that instead of proceding to its wish-satisfying instinctual terminous, an intercepting punishment-route substitutes a "hardness of rejection" content. (I became phobic about touching certain objects, tastes, the way things felt in the mouth.) An intermediate stage is 'resistances' aroused by associated ideas, places, etc., and 'fixations' (Jung: 'perseverations' - inability to 'let go' of an idea or behavior).
Real phobias, converting old libido into hated revulsion, into involuntary muscle-spasms (striking out, etc.), are chronic, long-term conditions. You don't "just get over it" any more than dreading haircuts.

Now, I don't have homophobia, in that sense, at all. Not at all. But I have instinctual sympatico with those who are -- cellular resonance, as it were. It is the insistence on "homophilia", over-determined love-of-love insouciated 24/7 days on end into collective consciousness by PC MSM, that 'poisons the blood of communication' and compells instinctual Resistances. It demands virtual wedding, linguistically, to virtual wedding, sexually. That is the double "I Do/I Don't" token elicited by "marriage", reversed from "union of opposites" to "same sex." We may or may not love them, but we don't have to redefined what we are to show acceptance. The fact that that is demanded is an insult. The fact that it has been yielded to is a psychic calamity.

It deconstructs "fucking assholes"

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