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Episode 270: We are Torah - Dan and Lex

4/16/21 by Institute for the Next Jewish Future

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Dan and Lex close out a mini-series of conversations about Torah (and the Bible more generally) by claiming that Torah isn't just those books from a few thousand years ago. It's not even just those books, plus the oral conversations written down centuries later. We -- our experiences and our intuitions -- are also part of the term "Torah." If you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here! To access shownotes for this episode, click here.

"In this article, we use the terms victim and perpetrator to refer to individuals’ actions in specific interactions, not as identity terms or as totalizing descriptions. That is, the extent to which an individual can be described as a victim or perpetrator depends entirely on the nature of their
conduct in specific instances. An individual who is a victim of violence in one instance can be a perpetrator of violence in another.

While we reject the use of the terms victim and perpetrator as totalizing, identity terms, we believe it is imperative to maintain this distinction. The word victim refers to a person who has been wrongly harmed. Perpetrators often try to conceal or avoid responsibility for their actions by obscuring the distinction between victim and perpetrator, for instance, by portraying their
unilateral, violent actions as mutual.

The Interactional and Discursive View of Violence
and Resistance

Interaction
1. Violence is social and unilateral: Violent behaviour is both social, in that it occurs in specific interactions comprised of at least two people, and unilateral, in that it entails actions by one individual against the will and well-being of another.

2. Violence is deliberate: The perpetrators of violence anticipate resistance from their victims and take specific steps to suppress and conceal it. Virtually all forms of violence and systems of oppression entail strategies designed specifically for the suppression of overt and covert resistance.

3. Resistance is ubiquitous: Whenever individuals are subjected to violence, they resist. Along side each history of violence, there runs a parallel history of resistance. Victims of violence face the threat of further violence, from mild censure to extreme brutality, for any act of open defiance. Consequently, open defiance is the least common form of resistance (Scott 1990).

Social Discourse
4. Misrepresentation: Misrepresentation is an ever-present feature of asymmetrical power relations (Scott 1990) and personalized violence. In cases of violence, public appearances are often highly misleading and the risk of inadvertent collusion with the offender is high.

5. Fitting words to deeds: There are no impartial accounts. All accounts of violence influence the perception and treatment of victims and offenders. Where there is violence, the question of which words are fitted to which deeds is crucial (Danet 1980, p. 189).

6. Four discursive operations: Language can be used to conceal violence, obscure and mitigate offenders’ responsibility,2 conceal victims’ resistance, and blame and pathologize victims. Alternatively, language can be used to expose violence, clarify offenders’ responsibility, elucidate and honor victims’ resistance, and contest the blaming and pathologizing of victims.

https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/22861/4/WF%20manuscript%20-%20Mills%20%26%20LeFrancois%20July%2017-2.pdf

Child As Metaphor: Colonialism, PsyGovernance, and Epistemicide. World Futures, 74(7-8), pp. 503-524, Mills, C. and Lefrancois, B. A. (2018)

"Throughout this article we have demonstrated the ways in which child as metaphor functions to denigrate colonized, psychiatrized and/or intellectually disabled people, as it reproduces these groups and actual children as being irrational, incompetent, unintelligent, animistic, in need of (parental) guidance, (economically) unproductive, and epistemically void.

The use of this metaphor, as we have seen, performs important political agendas inherent to the colonial project, racism, epistemicide, the medicalization of madness and disability, and the subjugating notions of development that unpins each.

All this is accomplished by focusing on and imposing a pejorative Western understanding of childhood that may be neither consistent with Indigenous/non-Western understandings of what constitutes childhood nor consistent with actual children’s abilities.

Regardless, the material and discursive impact on children has been demonstrated to include multi-systemic oppression including the interplay of adultism, colonialism, racism, sanism and dis/ableism, which mutually constitute and complicate each other. This interplay takes place at the level of adult-child relations and the psy governance of childhood itself, within global North-South-Fourth World relations and the racist infantilisation-parentification constructed within them, as well as within sane-mad relations and ableist-‘crip' relations, including the psy and medical domination that governs both.

A transdisciplinary approach has enabled the deconstruction of the co-constitutive metaphors of mad, ‘crip’, child, and colony/savage. This has made visible how the psy-disciplines have been constituted through colonialism and so are always already a colonial practice, and how the psy-disciplines and colonialism (even when seemingly operating apart from one another) use similar tools which are built upon the interlacing metaphors of madness, disability, savagery, and childhood."

"Account 5: A Therapist’s Statement

The following passage by Herman (Trauma and Recovery, 1997) is about women who endured sexualized or other forms of violence in childhood.

[Trauma and Recovery, 1992]
'Almost inevitably, the survivor has great difficulty protecting herself in the context of intimate relationships. Her desperate longing for nurturance and care makes it difficult to establish safe and appropriate boundaries with others. Her tendency to denigrate herself and to idealize those to whom she becomes attracted further clouds her judgment. Her empathic attunement to the wishes of others and her automatic, often unconscious habits of obedience also make her vulnerable to anyone in a position of power or authority. Her dissociative defensive style makes it difficult for her to form conscious and accurate assessments of danger. And her wish to relive the dangerous situation and make it come out right may lead her into re-enactments of the abuse (p.111).'

Herman conceals violence by limiting the mention of violence and minimizing its severity. Only once, in line 10, does Herman directly refer to sexualized violence in this passage. The term “abuse” conveys the unilateral nature of the sexualized violence (see Coates and Wade 2004) but does not convey that the acts were not both unilateral and violent (West and Coates 2004). The term “abuse” means misuse, but misuse does not necessarily entail violence. One person can misuse another in a variety of ways, for example, by demanding that they work long hours. Only a few forms of abuse involve the deliberate administration of force and humiliation by one person against another. Herman’s choice of the word “abuse” serves to minimize the severity of violence suffered by the women whose behaviour she purports to be explaining and trying to help. All other references to violence are so oblique that readers are left to infer its presence.

Herman blames and pathologizes female victims of violence by interpreting their behaviour out of context and proffering a series of psychological inferences that divert attention from the violence to the mind of the victim. The victim is constituted as having “difficulty protecting herself” (line 4), having “clouded judgment” (line 5), habitually and unconsciously obeying authority figures (line 6) and having a “dissociative defensive style” (line 7).

These personal deficiencies are used to explain why the survivor apparently lacks “safe and appropriate boundaries” (line 3), is “vulnerable to anyone in a position of authority” (line 6–7), and cannot accurately assess danger (line 8). Based upon unwarranted psychological inferences, Herman displaces a contextualized analysis of victim’s responses to perpetrators’ acts of violence with a decontextualized account that blames and pathologizes victims."

From Langauge and Violence: Analysis of Four
Discursive Operations (Coates & Wade, 2007)
http://www.solutions-centre.org/pdf/wade_language_and_violence_four_operations.pdf

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Also of note in this:

"Further, in highlighting the power of language we want to avoid falling into the kind of 'discourse determinism' that underlies some post-structural, social constructionist, and post-modern thought (e.g., Foucault 1972, 1980).

Discourse determinism is the view that discourse constructs reality, marks the limits of thought (Bourdieu 1977), forms and incarcerates the subject (e.g., Foucault 1972, 1980), and ultimately drives individual conduct (Eagleton 1991).

No less than the many forms of biological, psychological, and social determinism, discourse determinism reduces individual conduct and subjective experience to the status of effects (Ridley and Coates 2003; Wade 1997, 2000).

From this perspective there is little difference between psychoanalysis, biological psychiatry, socio-biology, and social constructivism.

Debates about the real causes or determinants of individual conduct and experience are rather like arguments between competing factions of the same political party; their similarities far outweigh their differences.

The debate itself conceals the deterministic assumptions that are quietly conserved."

"Enactive trauma therapy does not involve a strict protocol or set of protocols. It does not prescribe a fixed set of interventions that can be used in a cookbook fashion. Nor does it provide more or less authoritarian recipes or manuals.

Rather, the goal is to offer and illustrate an approach to trauma therapy which is broadly applicable and which deeply respects and values autonomy of traumatized individuals and their natural capacity for self-organization. In enactive trauma therapy, patients are encountered and conceived of as individuals who wish to enhance their power of action, their power of healing a major injury that has life inflicted and that only they can heal with consistent support and coaching from others.

Inasmuch as they have been traumatized themselves, they have developed and executed the actions required to resolve their injuries and pain sufficiently in order to fulfill this task. As coaches, enactive trauma clinicians do not dictate to the patient what the treatment entails. Instead, they flexibly meet their patients ‘where they are’ at any given point in time. From ‘there,’ they invite and encourage patients to engage in new viable and creative actions. These actions are the ones that their patients desire to develop or improve, that are within their reach, and that constitute steps on the way to recovery – on the path to wholeness."

The Trinity of Trauma: Ignorance, Fragility, and Control, Volume 3 - Enactive Trauma Therapy by Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis

The Trinity of Trauma: Ignorance, Fragility, and Control, Volume 3 - Enactive Trauma Therapy by Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis

' Nijenhuis based this book significantly on Spinoza's ideas... he was basically the only Enlightenment-era philosopher who wasn't splitting reality into parts... he lived as a glassblower outside of academia and in part was figuring out both integrative philosophy and a sort of therapy.

"[This book] was guided by the growing realization how wisely [Spinoza's] Ethics speaks to human confusion, conflicts, and trauma–as well as to a possible liberation from human bondage by passions. The endeavor was also compelled by a growing insight into how several ‘new’ and con- temporary psychological insights, theories, and approaches to treatment strongly appear to be Spinoza’s original thoughts in disguise. Honor to whom honor is due. Enactivism emphasizes that in order to experience and know themselves, other selves, and the material world, individuals must act. They must do something. Enactivism essentially proposes that organisms bring forth a self in action as well as a world and the relationship of this self and this world."

"It is, however, quite common in psychology and psychiatry to regard and treat organisms and the world they experience and know as two separate systems. For example, by assuming that individuals and their environment constitute two systems, many neuroscientists look for normal and abnormal consciousness in the brain. In this sense, trauma means there is something wrong ‘in’ the individual. The Trinity of Trauma, however, rejects the dissociation of organisms and their environment. I understand trauma to be a feature of an organism-environment system."

This parallels the view of epistemics presented in Epistemic Fluency: Innovation, Professional Education, Actionable Knowledge and Knowledgable Action — that most professional education and ways of thinking in modern society are various fragments better conceived of as a both/and holistic epistemics. '

The Trinity of Trauma: Ignorance, Fragility, and Control, Volume 3 - Enactive Trauma Therapy by Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis

"All living systems strive to achieve results that are advantageous to them. This takes power of action. When they achieve a goal, they experience joy and gain more power of action. When they fail to achieve a goal, they experience sorrow and lose power of action.

Enactive trauma therapy, then, is the endeavor to increase traumatized individuals’ power of action that they lost or were unable to develop as the traumatization proceeded.

Enactive trauma therapy is the striving to increase their joy and reduce their sorrow by inviting and encouraging new actions that replace their painful passions."

"Chapter 25 further states that trauma involves a particular decomposition of the personality. This view is extended and detailed in Chapter 26. It analyzes three prototypical conscious and self-conscious dissociative subsystems or ‘parts.’ Each strives to persevere in their existence in their own way.

‘Apparently normal parts’ (ANPs) primarily aim to achieve the goals of common life. ‘Fragile emotional parts’ (fragile EPs) primarily defend the basic integrity of life amid a devastating umwelt. [A.k.a., 'daily-life self' - Internal Family Systems / Janina Fisher; what Jung called ego-consciousness ]

‘Controlling emotional parts’ (controlling EPs) primarily strive to generate and maintain a sense of personal power, of shin- ing autonomy. [Called Exile or wounded parts in Internal Family Systems]

To achieve their aims ANPs [everyday life selves] strive to ignore the phenomenal selves and worlds of the EPs. They strive to feel, know, and/or realize it as little as possible. In the attempt to delimit their fragility, ignoring (e.g., mentally avoiding) EPs is a form of control.

Although fragile EPs feel and know themselves to be fragile, they long and strive to defend their very existence. Their defensive actions or passions involve a form of control. Stuck in the dreadful past, however, they remain more or less ignorant of the actual present in terms of the third-person’s conception of chronological time, place, and the unity the fragile EPs are a part of.

Controlling EPs share this ignorance and try to ignore their fragility. They strive to control their life and their umwelt. [Similar to Manager / Protector / maybe Firefighter parts in Internal Family Systems]

Being prototypes, traumatized individuals can encompass both mixtures and variations of these three prototypes."

The Trinity of Trauma: Ignorance, Fragility, and Control, Volume 3 - Enactive Trauma Therapy by Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis

"Chapter 26 also proposes that most, if not basically all, dissociative parts include more than one mental and behavioral state. These ‘states’ are described as ‘modes of longing and striving.’ It also makes the point that there are important differences between modes of longing and striving some authors refer to as ‘ego-states’ and dissociative parts. These differences are clinically as well as scientifically relevant.

Chapter 27 proposes that, like traumatized individuals as a unity, dissociative parts constitute operationally autonomous systems. Operationally autonomous systems are constantly being challenged to engage in a variety of actions (and passions) to continue their existence. This striving is their primary urge.

In this context, these systems generate and signify a self, a world, as well as intrinsic relationships of this self and this umwelt.

No matter how simple or complex, autonomous systems operate under precarious conditions: They perish if they fail to engage in the actions that generate and maintain their self, their world, and their dialectical self-world relationships. Dissociative parts, then, continuously bring forth, that is, enact and reenact, their particular self, umwelt and dialectical self-umwelt relationships.

Enactive trauma therapy is the endeavor to invite and encourage traumatized individuals at large as well as each of their dissociative parts to substitute their problematic or harmful actions and passions for more useful actions. Among other things, enactive trauma clinicians thus stimulate them to exchange such passions as reenactments of traumatizing events and relationships for more profitable actions."

By and large, trafficking operatives are themselves being trafficked.

"The most profitable action would be the full (re)integration of the personality. This “work” (Janet) implies the fusion of the operationally autonomous, self-centered dissociative parts into one single new operationally autonomous self-centered unity: a whole, healthy individual."

Note: The concept of 'integration' is defined one way by most trauma-dissociation therapists, 'fusion' — however Internal Family Systems and the way many multiples do things is to increase consciousness, communication and cooperation between identified parts, even discover and differentiate parts, and update their awareness to be aware of the present, and seeking a harmonious way of being. IFS calles this Self-leadership — the whole self.

https://www.davidjonestherapy.com/8-cs-ifs-therapy

"What Are the 8 C's of Self in IFS?

When we are coping with our parts at war, we can lose access to Self. However, as healing takes place, you can return to who you are at your core. IFS therapy focuses on helping you realign with your authentic Self. The 8 C's that identify each of us at our core are:

Calm - I feel and embrace feelings of peace and calmness within. I feel confident in my ability to remain calm instead of turning to extreme emotions.

Compassionate - I have compassion for others and myself. I approach others with an open heart and empathy.

Curious - I take a curious, non-judgmental stance as I approach people and situations. I feel genuine curiosity as I enter a new situation or meet someone new. My curiosity leads to learning and growth.

Courageous - I have the courage to recognize my shortcomings. I can courageously own and apologize for my actions. I can choose to have courage when others may not.

Clear-minded - I can enter situations with clarity. I can leave intense emotions behind and remain objective.

Connection - I feel connected to my purpose in life, my relationships, and my ability to mend misunderstandings.

Creative - I can create solutions to problems. I can create an environment around me for learning and growth. Through my creativity, I can come up with original and unique ideas.

Confident - I am confident in my ability to stay present and in the moment. I have confidence in my ability to handle contention or repair when necessary. I feel confident in my abilities to learn from mistakes and to approach them with curiosity. "

https://freedomofmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Dr-Hassan-Dissertation-Published.pdf

The BITE Model of Authoritarian Control: Undue Influence, Thought Reform, Brainwashing, Mind Control, Trafficking and the Law by Steven Alan Hassan (2020)

"This dissertation offers quantitative evidence about the BITE model (Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotion) as a potential tool to help evaluate cases involving exploitative control or undue influence. BITE (Hassan, 1988, 2015) offers a clearly defined model based on observable behaviors that expert witnesses can use to evaluate the presence of mind control or thought reform across a variety of settings and groups. "

"The studies of systematic social influence have produced several models to describe exploitative influence over a person or iii group of people. A literature review was conducted on existing laws that address trafficking, coercive control, and undue influence. An analysis of major models of thought reform, mind control, or brainwashing was done using Robert Jay Lifton’s Eight Criteria (Lifton, 1961); Edgar Schein’s model which includes Kurt Lewin's model for change (Schein, et al., 1961); Margaret Singer’s Six Conditions (Singer & Lalich, 2003); and the Influence Continuum and BITE Model (Hassan,1988). Scheflin’s Social Influence Model (Scheflin, 2015) offers an overall framework for expert witnesses to comprehensively evaluate any potential undue influence situation."

"Powerful, wealthy forces who engage in undue influence will wish to keep it out of jurisprudence

The quest to establish a scientifically valid way to evaluate exploitative influence acceptable to courts of law will be a herculean effort much greater than a single individual can deliver. There are powerful and wealthy religious and political forces in the United States which want to block such attempts. International bodies of the law may be more open to acceptance of authoritarian control as a legal construct of undue influence before the United States judicial system.

Many government intelligence agencies might not wish to have the public understand cult mind control techniques. I, myself, was involved with a cult that was “organized and utilized for use as a political tool,” the founder of the South Korean CIA said under oath (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978). The CIA was involved with mind-control research throughout the 1950s through 1970s, including the infamous MKULTRA efforts of Sidney Gottlieb (Scheflin & Opton, 1978; Kinzer, 2019). I am not aware of any intelligence service publicly admitting in recent times to researching mind control.

Another complicating factor is the current assault on science itself. Deliberate campaigns to undermine people’s faith in science and experts are ongoing."

https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/influence-continuum

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