What if Leftwing ideology has its deep psychodynamic roots in poor maternal bonding?
Here is my logic. At its root, and since at least the French Revolution, and following succession of tyrannies, the idea has been to overthrow everything that is, and replace it with something new.
Psychodynamically, what–or here, who–connects you with your past and culture in the deepest sense? Your mother. Your father might teach you concepts like patriotism and honor and courage, if you are a man, but your mother teaches you who you are. She tells you, through her behavior and bonding, whether or not you belong.
And if you can find no means to belong, revolution as an abstraction to replace failed emotional attachment would or could come to be very emotionally logical, even life-saving, which would explain the fanaticism which often–usually or even always might be more accurate–accompanies this form of psychopathology.
And I want to be clear: differing, true statements can be made about the management of human affairs. Differing political forms can “work”, depending on how we define that term. I do not want to critique dogmatism in a dogmatic spirit.
What I am targeting is delusional politics, which seeks a utopia which is made impossible by the very blindness which occasions the quest.