The Evil Regimes Symbol - A Freudian Perspective Dilip Rajeev

here exists in the psyche, the natural impulse, the Id, and the social set of notions, the ego, driven by the super ego. Repression occurs when the Id is repressed by the ego centres. And such repression of a natural sublimation of the libido and emergence of the Joy-principle, results in violent behaviour, and all forms of hysteria, if we are to draw from the Freudian theory of the human psyche. Communism, we find, enters into societies, only after a repressive psuedo-morality comes into force. Such a morality has no foundation in any traditional culture or thought, where the normal form of sexuality and profounder kinds of Love were the subject of all mythologies, fairy tales, and even were the cultural driving force. Pseudo-confucian morality, differs for instance greatly from the depictions of that which were considered sublime in the songs of the Book of Odes compiled by Figure 1. The sickle is an Confucius, or even that instrument of castration of the SkyFigure 2. The hammer symbolizes the male creative strongly suggested by the Father, the Heavens, or the organs. The head symbolizing the testicles and the Great Learning, and other Uranus-Principle of Greek Myths. handle the phallus. Confucian writings. In communist societies, people tend to be extremely close-minded. Repressive of each other( the Freudian phenomenon of transference of their personal experience in society to other humans), they tend to focus on each other's most minor errors, all higher pursuit is hated and people are asked to run in a fear of never making enough money, and never trust the fellow human. This inevitably follows a repressive morality where the psyche of the people as a whole comes to view all forms of Love as immoral. The profounder forms of Love, ought not to be conflated with the immoral, in any healthy human society. That communism is about negation of the profoundly

In Greek mythology, the sickle is that by which a castration of Heaven is done. The Hammer is symbolic of the creative male organs, the male triad. The head symbolizing the testicles and the handle the phallus.
creative, is captured in its symbol as well. The very repression of the profound and the creative is captured, by no coincidence, in its symbol.

The Austrian Flag

In 1918 a communist party was established in Austria. In 1919 a coat of arms was introduced into the Austrian Flag. This symbol had a bird, an Eagle, a traditional symbol of Austrian Kings, keeping the sickle separated from the hammer. The bird is symbolic of transformatory forces of Love. In the case of the Austrian bird, it is even more exemplified in that its tail resembles the Fluer-de-lis, a symbolic representation of the union of the dualistic principles. It is as if the Kings heraldry had symbolically risen to protect Austria from the evils grip. Protecting the hammer-principle from the evils sickle, by separating the two symbols. The color of the bird is black, which indicates a transformative weakening from its supreme sacrifice. Yet the weakening is but only a stage of the transformation, of being pulled down by the chaos. The color being symbolic of the nigredo of the alchemists. The sickle was never a part of the traditional heraldry of any Austrian state. A few of them are depicted below.

Figure 3. The FLuer-de-lis is a traditional symbol of the Union of The Dual Principles of Nature, and thus of Profound Love. We find the symbol in the tail of the transformatory bird of the Austrian flag which separates the evil sickle from the hammer-principle. ,