Jared Lee Loughner, the assassin of Arizona, mentioned in his YouTube profile according to various media reports as his favorite books include Hitler's "Mein Kampf", "Fahrenheit 451", "The Communist Manifesto" and "Peter Pan". The Time also reports that he also "Alice in Wonderland" loved to read.
This is the first time, at first glance a bewildering selection of books and - if it were not "Mein Kampf" in between - certainly nothing that would require special mention. I think that someone who says "Mein Kampf" as favorite book lists, quite a lot about himself and his personality structure. However, these books also connect. Hitler's hate book, Marx's radical social theory, the book hate book "Fahrenheit 451" and - perhaps most particularly irritating - the children's books Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland, the latter are the triggers for this post here.
Many people will love these two children's books and this was also left them. If someone like Jared Lee Loughner lists these as favorite books, I shall indeed hear everything. The Hamburg sex researcher Professor Wolfgang Berner said in an interview again, "Lewis Carrol , the" Alice in Wonderland, wrote, "was probably a pedophile. Likewise, James M. Barrie, author of "Peter Pan" - the boy who never grew. "(Michael Jackson also was not without reason, a Peter Pan fan and named his ranch" Neverland. ") This is not to say that Loughner" pedophile " is. No, this is about the fascination that caused these two books with him. In both stories can be found symbolically in the story many messages that indicate destructive parental figures and long-suffering children. "Pedophiles" are not children lovers, as the word suggests, much more they are haters. Their hatred they only sexualized. Hatred and violence appear here clearly in both children's books. That Loughner loved both books surprise so far not from the above mentioned backgrounds. And of course, I suppose, a very painful childhood history of this assassin, without excuse his actions do. (Psycho Historically, it would be interesting to see how this . Attack before possibly in images and symbols in the U.S. media built) The SPIEGEL reports: " About Loughner rather bourgeois family life with parents Amy and Randy Little is known neighbors described the relations of the three to each other than." Inscrutable " the behavior of the father as sometimes "unpleasant" or aggressive. "More is probably not yet known.
pictures and stories often have a meaning, but the public hardly ever perceived or interpreted. This is also on hand of a bloody anderern case clearly. The actor Michael Brea recently chopped off his mother with a Samurai sword to the head. He justified the fact, so..... "I did not kill I just killed the demon in her, it was the will of God, God appeared to me one night on my bed I felt like Neo in The Matrix I heard voices and felt . me strong "
Ludwig Janus wrote a review for the film" Matrix " Reflections on Film" Matrix " I know the article yet, but I can imagine the content. The film is full of links to displaced / split-off traumatic childhood experiences. This I can not now discuss it all. A note says, but already a lot. Morpheus says to Neo in the film: " I'll tell you why you're here. You are here because you know something. Something that you can not explain. But you feel it. You feel it has all your life, that something is wrong with the world. You do not know what, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind that makes you mad. This feeling has led you to me . "
At best perhaps Alice Miller described in her books, what is being expressed in the film image. Banished knowledge of the self-betrayal of the child who identify with its violent parents need to survive and later again with the feeling go through life, because that "something" is what is not can be explained.
Very few abused children to take revenge on their tormentors directly, however, as Michael Brea, this probably did. But they act out their revenge in other places, looking substitutionary sacrifice or do yourself in violence.
Again conclusion: images and stories have meaning, this is especially true when it comes to terrorists and other people. We should look more closely at what these images tell us.
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