Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 622 W. 168th, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
Am J Psychoanal. 2022 Mar;82(1):80-111. doi: 10.1057/s11231-022-09343-0.
This paper is an effort to locate blood magic in the age of psychopathy. Taking as a starting point Michael Eigen's observation that psychopathic tendencies can become cut off from balancing capacities and wreak havoc, we consider the ways in which practices of blood magic, including rituals surrounding menstruation have functioned variously across cultures to balance destructive tendencies and sustain relationship with the living surround. We argue that the lack of these practices and the attitudes fed by and feeding them has contributed to an upsurge in ultra-violent phenomena like mass shootings in our culture. Moreover, we consider the ways in which such phenomena are perverted expressions of a need for blood magic that, though twisted beyond recognition, nevertheless seek expression and wishes to be recognized in this age, which has as its backdrop an unrecognized, unfolding human-wrought ecological catastrophe.
本文旨在探讨在精神病态时代寻找血魔法的努力。本文以迈克尔·艾根（Michael Eigen）的观察为出发点，即精神病态倾向可能与平衡能力脱节并造成严重破坏，我们考虑了血魔法实践的各种方式，包括月经周围的仪式，这些实践在不同文化中起到了平衡破坏倾向和维持与周围生命联系的作用。我们认为，缺乏这些实践以及助长和滋养这些实践的态度，导致了我们文化中大规模枪击等极端暴力现象的激增。此外，我们还考虑了这种现象是如何扭曲地表达对血魔法的需求的，尽管这种需求已经扭曲得面目全非，但它仍然试图在这个时代表达自己，并希望得到认可，而这个时代的背景是一场未被认识到的、正在展开的人为生态灾难。
