{"id":4712,"date":"2011-02-12T12:31:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T19:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=4712"},"modified":"2011-02-12T12:31:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T19:31:48","slug":"the-inner-child-family-policy-on-pain-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2011\/02\/12\/the-inner-child-family-policy-on-pain-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inner Child Family Policy: on pain and politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a recent New Yorker story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2011\/01\/10\/110110fa_fact_osnos\">Freudian psychoanalysis in China<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI asked what problems he sees most often among his patients. He answered, \u201cIf a grandfather, for example, was criti- cized and abused in the social upheaval of the nineteen-sixties and seventies, then he couldn\u2019t take care of his child, so the child was raised in a chaotic situation and had to develop defensive ways to cope.\u201d In that way, the Cultural Revolution can produce marital or family problems that trickle down to a third generation. \u201cFrom my point of view, the upheaval never ended,\u201d he said. \u201cIt repeats within the family.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The son of a political dissident and a psychologist, I am biased towards a psychological understanding of political life. Nonetheless, there is ample scholarship, from Aristotle to Shakespeare, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Michel Foucault, that suggests so much of what we do in our formal political lives is articulated through our personal lives.<\/p>\n<p>We spend a great deal of time considering what that means in terms of the lives of our leaders \u2013\u00a0are they good parents? are they good children? \u2013\u00a0and yet the implications are greater when one considers the lives of the populace, of pundits and audiences. In a time of Mama Grizzly and Father <del datetime=\"2011-02-12T19:18:38+00:00\">Coughlin<\/del> Beck, a little more Shakespeare might go a long way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a recent New Yorker story on Freudian psychoanalysis in China: I asked what problems he sees most often among his patients. He answered, \u201cIf a grandfather, for example, was criti- cized and abused in the social upheaval of the nineteen-sixties and seventies, then he couldn\u2019t take care of his child, so the child was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}