Catholic Church pedophilia as institutional unconscious

As told 6

“pedophilia is something like the hidden curriculum, if you want, the obscene underground of Catholic Church as an institution”
20:00 A Philosophical Journey Through A Concept2014-09-23 · 1:11:38

“it was the institution itself which made them pedophiliacs... institutions have this kind of a secret collective unconscious... publicly disavowed but nonetheless constitutes a disavowed constituent of their identity.”
49:37 Year of Distraction1:16:41

“one can imagine a straight, non-pedophiliac priest who after years of service gets involved in pedophilia because the very logic of the institution seduces him into it”
29:21 Rules, Race and Mel Gibson2006 · 1:09:13

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 2 jobsuses

obscene underside ×5 obscene supplement ×2

Its cast and sources

populated by

Joseph de Maistre1 Ra'anan Gissin1 Ben Hecht1 Abraham Foxman1 Stella Sandford1 Néstor Kirchner1 Pussy Riot1 Pankaj Mishra1

alongside works

The Making of the Indebted Man2 The End of Faith2 The Notebook / The Proof / The Third Lie1 Justice, Not Vengeance1 How to Read Beauvoir1 The Caucasian Chalk Circle1 Forsaken: Report of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry1 Why Do Women Write Letters They Don't Post?1

Told together with

33% Ciudad Juárez femicide as ritual 3 shared talks 29% South African Truth and Reconciliation Committee vs. Nazi Germany 2 shared talks 22% Sam Harris's Truth Pill 2 shared talks 17% Stalinist prohibition of the prohibition 3 shared talks 13% Lenin's Wife and Mistress 2 shared talks 9% Starbucks ethical consumerism 3 shared talks

Every retelling 6

20:00 A Philosophical Journey Through A Concept2014-09-23 · 1:11:38

The Church's response to thousands of pedophilia cases, protecting perpetrators rather than victims, reveals pedophilia is not incidental but part of the institution's structural identity., illustrating institutional unconscious,obscene underground

49:37 Year of Distraction1:16:41

Žižek argues the Church's pedophilia scandal is not accidental but the institution's inherent transgressive supplement, citing Slovenian cases where straight men were made pedophiles by the institution itself., illustrating implicit obscene underside,institutional collective unconscious

29:21 Rules, Race and Mel Gibson2006 · 1:09:13

Priestly pedophilia is not merely individual pathology but is inscribed in the Church as institution; Žižek cites Slovenian research suggesting formerly non-pedophiliac priests were gradually seduced into it by the institutional logic itself., illustrating institutional unconscious,unwritten rules / meta-rules,obscene supplement

~4:39 The Need to Censor our Dreams2014-11-11 · 1:33:20

Pedophilia in the Catholic Church is not a coincidental accumulation of individual cases but a structural feature, an institutional unconscious or obscene ritual that the institution protects., illustrating institutional unconscious,ideology,inherent transgression

1:11:28 Slavoj Žižek Masterclass: Jacques Lacan: A Lateral Introduction. Part 2pub. 2018-11-28 · 1:56:22

Žižek argues pedophilia in the priesthood is not just individual pathology but an 'obscene supplement' structurally involved in the logic of the Catholic institution., illustrating institutional unconscious,Superego

40:47 Karl Marx and Hegel2013-03-08 · 1:37:40

Gary Wills found cases where a man who was heterosexual before ordination became a pedophile through becoming a priest, suggesting clerical pedophilia is not random but structurally embedded in Church identity, explaining the systematic cover-up., illustrating ritualized collective violence,obscene supplement of institutions