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PREFERRING SON, TERMINATING SON: UNCONTRADICTORY CONTRADICTIONS OF CIVILIZATION
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Abstract
This paper
is on the age and sex discrimination as it is found in the tyrant patriarchal
society. It departs from the Freudian/Jungian meta-psychological project of
universal Oedipus Complex and simultaneously adds something opposite to it.
According to author, there is a reverse trend of “castrating” (note that
the term is used exclusively for male) the younger one as well as an
antithetical drive for preserving the progeny. Instead of “being father, having
mother”, which might be a possibility in some kowms, there is another trend of
annihilating younger generation, i.e., “satisfied father with (physically or
mentally) terminated daughters and sons”. Freud-Jung took their cue from Greek
mythology and the present author reiterates the so-called “Hindu” purana (the epic of Mahabharata that
explains the repressive forces in society to primal repression by a father
jealous of his male child's youth and virility), to elaborate this hypothesis.
In the Mahabharata, it was told that Yayati took his youngest son’s (Puru)
vitality to restore his cursed aging. This planned process (with Malthusian
mindset) of termination of younger generation is observed in the domain of
certain society. Thus the author names it as Yayati complex. On the other hand,
the caring attitude towards younger generation is named after war-monger Babur,
by remembering his effort to save his child. The Babur Complex relates the
popular legend of the Timurid Conqueror Babur (1483-1531), who when his son and
heir apparent Humayun fell sick and was declared dying by the court physicians
, circled his sick bed thrice and prayed for the ailment to be given to him and
his wards life be spared to altruistic actions by patriarchal figures in
society. In this case, the nexus between saving the progeny and the
preservation of private property is also being observed. The author questioned
the Freud’s taxonomy of mind and proposed a different taxonomy by rearranging
the concept of mind as it is found in sahajiya tradition. The simultaneous and
overlapping operations of Yayati and Babur complex (thanatos and eros)
originate from context-sensitive ego and not from the Id ( Freud thought that
Oedipus/Electra complex was formed from the Id), therefore there is no
universal truth-claim on the part of the present author regarding the existence
of Yayati/Babur complex as it varies in different spaces and times.
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