{"id":60880,"date":"2019-08-11T11:17:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T08:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=60880"},"modified":"2023-03-05T13:08:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T11:08:22","slug":"family-relations-and-power-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/family-relations-and-power-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Relations And Power Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[914,373,423,386],"acf":{"old_id":"60880","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":56443,"related_cahpter":"282","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"When latent oedipal tensions come to the fore","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The author presents his deepest insight into the pathologies of dynastic succession in his narrative of Absalom\u2019s rebellion, where the ultimate price of maintaining sovereignty was paid. The dynastic structure explored in the Absalom narrative dislodges what might be the cornerstone of the civilized order &#8212; keeping at bay, repressing, and controlling a latent oedipal tension.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Undone in this rebellion was the immense civilizing effort entrenched in both the firm taboo against having sex with one\u2019s father\u2019s wives and the psychologically intolerable guilt stemming from the possible murder of the father. In the end, the oedipal drama was enacted only halfway. Having chosen political ambition over filial bonds, Absalom had sex publicly with his father\u2019s concubines. But the young usurper did not murder his father. Instead, he was defeated by his father, who possessed more skilled and seasoned military forces.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the family is turned into the exclusive vehicle for securing the continuity of government upon the ruler\u2019s death, the stakes become intolerably high. The winner-take-all nature of hereditary monarchy raises sibling rivalry among the potential successors to a fratricidal pitch. The delicate and arduous work of the civilizing project, especially the discipline imposed on intimate family relations, disintegrates under the pressure of power politics. Patriarchal families are afflicted with horizontal rivalries among brothers and vertical tensions between fathers and sons. These tensions, which are mitigated by deeply rooted social and cultural norms, burst into flames when the family is used as the principal vehicle for the transfer of such immense power.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The narratives of Absalom\u2019s killing of Amnon and his rebellion against David manifest the breakdown of the delicate horizontal and vertical family structures under the strain of dynastic politics. Since the family is a centerpiece of political order within a traditional dynastic monarchy, its internal breakdown will also have a ripple effect, destabilizing the body politic as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Excerpts from <em>The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes, Princeton University Press, 2017, pp. 139-40.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":56668,"id":56668,"title":"halbertal-book cover.jpg","filename":"halbertal-book-cover.jpg.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/halbertal-book-cover.jpg.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-fine-grained-phenomenology-of-political-power\/halbertal-book-cover-jpg\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"halbertal-book-cover-jpg","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":56661,"date":"2019-06-02 14:58:58","modified":"2019-06-03 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