Attachment = Our drive to connect with a caring other, and feel ‘seen’
Authenticity = Our ability to acknowledge our emotions, interests, and act in a way that is truly who we are, and aligns to our sense of meaning and purpose
We are always negotiating between authenticity and attachment. When authenticity threatens attachment, attachment trumps authenticity. If the choice is between ‘hiding my feelings, even from myself, and getting the basic care I need’ and ‘being myself and going without, I’m going to pick that first option every single time. Thus our real selves are leveraged bit by bit in a tragic transaction where we secure our physical or emotional survival by relinquishing who we are and how we feel.
Authenticity = Our ability to acknowledge our emotions, interests, and act in a way that is truly who we are, and aligns to our sense of meaning and purpose
We are always negotiating between authenticity and attachment. When authenticity threatens attachment, attachment trumps authenticity. If the choice is between ‘hiding my feelings, even from myself, and getting the basic care I need’ and ‘being myself and going without, I’m going to pick that first option every single time. Thus our real selves are leveraged bit by bit in a tragic transaction where we secure our physical or emotional survival by relinquishing who we are and how we feel.
At times of pressure and fear, our perspective narrows and the part of our brain that takes over is more the fear and defensive based fight or flight. We lose the governance of our prefrontal cortex which is capable of taking a broader view. Perspective expands when people are not under physical threat. Our perspective narrows and it becomes subsumed in group identification and thought of revenge or hurting the other. The Hebrew word for Egypt is Mizraim, meaning a narrow place. So under threat or when we are perceived as under threat, we go to this narrow place. That’s a place of slavery. When we are enslaved to our own unconscious, we are governed by our emotions and the heart closes down.
The Zionist project, whatever validity you might think that it had in terms of Jewish history and Jewish redemption, could only be accomplished at the expense of the people that had already been living in that land for a long time. And that’s been the dilemma. So that means that out of the Jewish trauma, a trauma had to be imposed on the local population. It could not have been done in any other way. Zionism granted people without a land a land without a people. But there is no land without a people.
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