Laurent Guyénot, Israel’s Biblical Psychopathy

Laurent Guyénot    I am tired of reading that Netanyahu is a psychopath.  He most certainly is not.  I see no reason to consider him, or any other Israeli leader, as psychopaths in the psychiatric sense.  They have a collective psychopathy, which is a very different thing. The difference is the same as between a personal neurosis and a collective neurosis. According to Freud, religion (and he meant christianity) is a collective neurosis. Freud did not mean that religious people are neurotic.  On the contrary, he observed that their collective neurosis…