Trump in a Tutu: Messages from the Unconscious

(this was written in 2020)

I believe that messages from the unconscious appear in dreams and in waking images that arise without any obvious stimulus. I also believe that some people have integrated primitive, unconscious drives into their lives in healthier ways and with less resistance because they are more open to it and because they believe those drives to be less shameful and, to some extent, even good. 

Fundamentalists and puritanical utopians are more likely to practice denial and frustration because they think that matter and "the flesh" are inherently base and sinful and only capable of leading one down into the pit of sin where they frolic with Satan. I, on the other hand, think that matter and "the flesh" and attendant frolics therein are good and part of a healthy emotional and spiritual life. 

Politically, the puritanical crowd has won the day and so denial is our prevailing ethic and assorted variations on toe-tapping behavior are the result. The puritanical utopians are in a hopeless quandary only resolved by dying, their release from the miasma of the material world. In the meantime they struggle horribly with the bonds of their humanity and imperfection and frequently run astray.

They are stuck in a body and existence they despise and so, when they fall, they usually fall hard into all kinds of sinful behavior, the baser the better, and learn nothing from it. They have no compassion for their own humanity because they hate it and even less for that of others because theirs is as apparent to them as their own is not. This is a sick-ass and self-destructive approach to life. 

Trump represents this unintegrated id and so it's understandable that he would provoke strong reactions in the underlying consciousnesses of others. He's stirring up some dark stuff. So I will begin a list of images occurring to me that seem to capture something essential about Trump, though they resist explication and understanding. I will list those here which seem symbolically true:

1. Trump in a tutu

2. (please add to this list)