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Stanley McChrystal's Book On Character, and Walter J. Ong's Thought (REVIEW ESSAY)

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After I was released from the hospital in early March 1974, the young woman onto whom I had projected the optimal and positive form of the feminine Lover archetype in my psyche renewed our short but intense affair. However, before the end of March 1974, she ended our short but intense affair. No doubt I was not a pleasant person to be around after I got out of the hospital in March 1974.

In any event, over my long life (I turned 81 on March 17, 2025), I have not projected the optimal and positive forms of the Queen archetype in my psyche onto any woman in my life; I have not projected the optimal and positive form of the feminine Warrior/Knight archetype of maturity onto any woman; I have not projected the optimal and positive feminine Magician/Shaman archetype onto any woman; and I have not projected the feminine Lover archetype in my psyche onto any other woman than the young woman with whom I had a short but intense affair in late February into early March 1974.

For further discussion of my mental breakdown and hospitalization in 1974, see my OEN article titled "I Am a Hypomanic Personality Type Person" (dated May 26, 2025):

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Now, I have discussed Robert Moore's groundbreaking work about the eight archetypes of maturity in the human psyche, and their accompanying sixteen "shadow" forms, in my OEN article "Robert Moore on Optimal Human Psychological Development" (dated September 17, 2024), mentioned above - in which I first set forth my criticism of the Roman Catholic Church's moral vision regarding individual personal moral development - which I subsequently expanded in my criticism of the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity, starting with my wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 28,800-word 665th OEN article titled "Fareed Zakaria and Ezra Klein on President Trump's Foreign Policy" (dated March 24, 2025), mentioned above.

Now, in Father Ong's long and productive life, he did not publicly criticize the Roman Catholic Church's moral teachings - and I cannot imagine that Father Ong would ever commend me for publicly criticizing the Roman Catholic Church's moral teachings.

However, I can imagine the late Robert Moore commending me for using his work about the archetypes of maturity in the human psyche to publicly criticizing the Roman Catholic Church's individual personal moral vision of human moral development in my OEN article dated September 17, 2024, and I can also imagine Robert Moore further commending me for expanding my criticism subsequently in my subsequent 28,800-word OEN article dated March 24, 2025, in my criticism of the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity. The tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity is deeply and profoundly based on the Impotent Lover "shadow" forms of the masculine and the feminine Lover archetypes of maturity in the human psyche.

Now, even though I believe that Robert Moore would commend me for using his work to criticize the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity, I have no basis for believing that he would also commend me for what I have claimed about men of a certain age possibly profiting from adopting a fantasy mom from the fantasy skits of mom-son porn videos that are available free on the internet - to help those men of a certain age work through the liberation of endogamous kinship libido "married within" their psyches to their early childhood image of their own moms (or mother-figures) in their psyches. However, I have found it helpful to adopt the now-retired American pornstar Mandy Flores, mentioned above, as my fantasy adopted mom because her big (39") boobs and here eye-catching big nipples remind me of my own mom's big boobs and eye-catching big nipples. So I figure that other men of a certain age might also find it helpful to them to adopt a fantasy mom.

Now, when we sing the catchy lyrics of the song "Falling in Love with Love" (lyrics by Lorenz Hart; music by Richard Rodgers) from the 1938 Broadway musical The Boys from Syracuse, we sing the lyrics, "I fell in love with love/ With love everlasting."

We also sing the catchy lyrics, "Falling in love with love/ Is falling for make believe."

Well, I fell in love with Father Ong and his media-ecology ideas when I was a twenty-year-old junior majoring in English at Saint Louis University in the fall semester of 1964. But I did not fall in love with love.

Nor did I ever expect what has turned out to be my long-lasting love for Father Ong and his media-ecology ideas would ever be "love everlasting."

Nor did I ever expect that my long-lasting love for Father Ong and his media-ecology ideas would somehow prevent me from criticizing the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity.

Now, after I thematized my criticism of the anti-body heritage of Christianity in my wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 28,800-word 665th OEN article "Fareed Zakaria and Ezra klein on President Trump's foreign Policy" (dated March 24, 2025), mentioned above, my fate as a possible candidate to be elected the new pope was sealed - I was as a result doomed not to be elected by the cardinal electors to be the next pope to succeed Pope Francis.

Ah but this witty observation raises the serious question: Will Pope Leo XIV recognize that the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity is the root cause of the priest sex abuse scandal?

Will Pope Leo XIV takes the steps necessary to bring the church's official demand for priestly celibacy to an end?

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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
 

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