Sigmund Freud had a concept he called “projection, which has been defined as a defense where the ego deals with unacceptable impulses and/or terrifying anxieties by attributing them to someone in the external world.
In many ways I think that explains the behavior of the media’s current patron saint, Cindy Sheehan, whose hate rhetoric aimed at President Bush is really meant for someone else who she can’t admit even to herself is her real target. To do so would represent one of those “unacceptable impulses” Dr. Freud was talking about.
Who does Cindy really hate? Mike Reagan makes an almost unthinkable assertion, but then backs it up with reasoned psychological and philosophical discussion. Do I necessarily agree with Michael Reagan on this one? I do not know. I do think there is some projection going on, but I am not quite ready yet to come out the way he has here. Go read the whole thing and comment below....
