DESTRUCTO & TRUMP: Balance Thanatos, the Shadow Force that Tears Down with LIBIDO, the Eros Force That Builds.
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DESTRUCTO & TRUMP: Balance Thanatos, the Shadow Force that Tears Down, with LIBIDO, the Eros Force That Builds
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By Janet Kira Lessin, (CEO, Aquarian Media) and Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D., Anthropology, UCLA, M.A. (Counseling Psychology, University for Humanistic Studies
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DESTRUCTO (The Shadow, Thanatos)
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There’s a powerful archetypal force alive today—one that tears down, shatters, mocks, burns, devours.
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It has a name, a face, and a movement. It tweets, snarls, and sneers. It polarizes. It commands attention. And many call it Trump.
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But Trump is not just a man. He is the embodiment of Destruction—not the thoughtful, sacred destruction of Shiva or Kali or fire used wisely, but a rampant, reactive tearing down of norms, truths, boundaries, and bridges. He represents the unintegrated ID, the primal, infantile, animal mind ruled by “I want,” “I take,” and “Me first.”
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This isn’t news to psychologists. In Freudian terms, the ID is the instinctual core of the psyche. In Jungian terms, it is the projected shadow. In spiritual systems, the lower chakra energy is untethered from the heart or the crown. In human terms, it’s someone who never grew up emotionally but was given the power of a king.
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DESTRUCTION IS NOT INHERENTLY EVIL
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We and all systems need destruction to evolve. Forests burn to regenerate. Dead cells must die for new ones to grow. The psyche, too, must shed old skins. But destruction must be balanced—ideally governed—by Libido, the force that builds, heals, restores, and renews.
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LIBIDO/EROS, COUNTERFORCE OF DESTRUCTO = CONSTRUCTION, AWARENESS, THE AWARE EGO
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The force that balances Destructo is Libido, or life-force. Libido involves construction, creation, integration, and awareness. When we learn to hear our many inner voices and listen to the needs that motivate them, we can create ways to coordinate them into our behavior that work within our life ecology. We integrate them from our Center, aka, our AWARE EGO.
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OUR AWARE EGOS (aka, Our Centers) RECOGNIZE & COORDINATE MEETING NEEDS OF OUR MANY INNER VOICES IN THE CONTEXT OF OUR SHIFTING EXISTENTIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
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In their Voice Dialogue work, our teachers, Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone described the “aware ego process” as a center of consciousness that can observe all the inner voices without being possessed by any of them.
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Our Aware Egos witness without reacting. Then we can choose or inhibit our actions according to our immediate and long-range needs. Our Aware Egos consult the neutral, observant Fair Witness we can access.
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The Destructive Archetype runs our current culture. TRUMP gives voice to millions’ disowned rage.
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People follow him not because he uplifts them but because he sees the part of them that society ignores—the resentment, the grievance, the shadow. Trump strokes MAGA-molded minds and siccs them on his opponents. His opponents criticize him and the Magas. The negative attention (strokes) Magas relish gives them negative attention they get from Progressives because negative attention trumps no attention at all; at least they’re getting attention.
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We all want to be seen. But being seen in our shadow is not healing. It’s addictive.
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BUT DON’T SHAME THE SHADOW; INSTEAD, INTEGRATE IT.
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So what now? Do we scream at Destructo? Do we exile this force from our minds? No.
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Integrate your destructo impulses. Witness them, learn what needs they meet. Ask, What higher form can Trump energy, dictatorship, misogyny, racism, and violence take?
Don’t kill the fire. Contain it in a forge.
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Don’t shame the Shadow. Bring it into the light—lovingly but firmly.
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View the play of Libido, Destructo from the perspectives of your Center that assesses options and your FAIR WITNESS, the neutral, observant part of you that sees how you operate neutrally as a system. We all have inner archetypes that correspond to universal compassion and anabolism (building up) and ones that correspond to catabolism (tearing down).
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Integration of anabolism and catabolism yields metabolism. In the current era, we need to see what motivates our democratic and authoritarian, progressive and conservative, separating and unifying impulses, Trump and Jesus.
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LET LIBIDO LIFT OUR LIVES AS WE DESTROY DELETERIOUS DESIGNS
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As a society and as individuals, we can step into the Constructive Archetype—the one that builds not through force but through clarity, that heals not through denial but through truth-telling, and that leads not through dominance but through integrity.
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This force is not flashy. It is not loud. It doesn’t dominate the headlines.
It builds temples in silence.
It heals broken communities
It raises children who know how to feel and choose.
It teaches the inner child that they can be seen and loved without burning the house down.
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A Call to Builders: We don’t need more rage. We don’t need more idols.
We need architects of empathy.
We need council fires, not bonfires.
We need those who can say: “I see the hunger to destroy. I honor its message. And now, I choose to build something better.”
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This is the work of the Aware Ego. This is how we transform society. Not by shaming Destructo—but by choosing, every day, to be the Builder.
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Libido’s the opposite of the destructive force, not silence.
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It is the constructive force, anchored in awareness, humility, and service.
Both forces live in us.
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The future belongs to those who can hold both—and still choose love.
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BUILDER’S PRAYERby Minerva
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I’ve known the fire that eats the sky,
The tongue of rage, the endless cry.
I’ve danced with ashes, fed the flame,
And whispered blame in freedom’s name.
But now I lift my hands to build,
With hearts unarmed and voices stilled.
Each word a beam, each truth a stone—
I raise a house, not a throne.
So let the storm tear down the old—
I will not join it, cruel and bold.
I’ll be the calm, the voice, the plan—
Not just the critic but also the one who can.
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SEX, CENTERING & ALL-CHAKRA LOVING
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Try it from “TEACH TANTRA” by Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. & Janet Kira Lessin.
Center yourself with the simple technique we outline here to access, own, and integrate your shadow and spiritual selves—our less-known inner voices (also known as parts, personality aspects, roles, subselves, subpersonalities, egos). We center when we hold the tension between opposed inner voices. Centered, we recognize, embrace, and coordinate our protective, vulnerable, instinctual, and spiritual subselves. Centering’s easier when we review how we develop our many inner selves.
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INNER VOICES
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As babies and children, we needed our parents’ love to survive, get along, and feel okay. We imprinted our neediness; part of us, our VULNERABLE CHILD, stays needy forever.
The Child within always feels things with its heart. It remembers everything it ever felt. It remains sensitive to every change and nuance around it. The Child contributes or withdraws warmth as we relate to others. It’s the part that tells us who we can trust and when to leave painful situations we can’t change. But the Child can feel insecure. Other people can easily scare, shame, or hurt it. Far too sensitive to live and make decisions in the world, the Child needs protection.
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So we developed protective inner voices to make people approve of us. Protective voices tell us how to get what we want. They say what to do and avoid so people, especially our family, won’t scorn, shun, neglect, punish, or abuse us.
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Protective voices hide our inner instinctual voices–our selfish, sexual, and angry voices—from other people and even from ourselves. If our parents dislike our psychic, spiritual, creative, or archetypal voices, we hide these voices, too. We disown the impulses that the hidden instinctual and spiritual voices press us to express. The voices we disown collectively comprise our SHADOW.
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The voices comprising our shadow, shaped by our parents’ attitudes, differ from the shadow voices of others. If our parents suppressed, for example, our Inner Bard, our Bard becomes a shadow voice. If, on the other hand, they honored our Bard and taught us to disown our Inner Sexy Side, the Sexy Side would enter the shadow, while our Bard might become a primary self.
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The shadow anger, sexuality, creativity, and spirituality we repress sensitize us to angry, sexy, creative, and spiritual expression in other people. When we perceive others as lusty, aggressive, artistic, or saintly, we feel critical or admiring of this expression in them.
Protective voices, like our Pleaser, Thinker, Pusher, Critic, or even Rebel, distract us. We forget that we feel vulnerable, scared, insecure, and hurt. We forget we feel angry, sexy, creative, or spiritual—we forget our shadow and our Child.
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EVOLVE A CENTER
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Hal and Sidra Stone suggest we see ourselves as broader than our Reasoner, Pusher, Critic, and other protective voices. We should value these voices as parts of us. We should recognize and respect protective voices and feel the Child and shadow voices. Then, we will feel most alive and make contact with other people.
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According to the Stones, we grow in consciousness when we simultaneously consider the Child’s needs, the disowned shadow voices’ needs, and the protective voices’ needs. From our Center, which the Stones call our “Aware Ego”, we can share as much of our vulnerability, creativity, sexuality, and assertion as we choose for any situation. From our Center, we reveal enough vulnerability to connect intimately without becoming too open. And, from our Center, we use protective, instinctual, creative, and spiritual voices enough to be powerful. As an Aware Ego, we balance vulnerability, power, instinct, and spirituality.
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VOICE DIALOGUE STEPS
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We identify alternate personalities. We change chairs and speak in our various voices.
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First, we take an initial position, which will be the place for our Aware Ego to hear our inner voices.
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We talk about the voices active in us lately (like Intellect, Critic, Pleaser, Pusher), the ones we show the world, and the ones we feel inside.
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We choose one of our public voices. Say what this voice is like and what it does for us.
Then, we shift to a position for the voice we’ve chosen to focus upon. We embody that voice and say who we are as that self and what we do for the whole person we are.
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As this self, we say when we came out in full, and our subsequent History as this subself. As this voice, we say how we protect other, vulnerable subselves. We tell you about our contributions and what we want to be acknowledged and appreciated for.
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Then we return to the Aware Ego position and go through this dialogue procedure with the other voices that our protective selves agree to express.
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Next, we stand in the Awareness and summarize what our subselves said. Impartially- without any need to decide anything–feel the energy of each of us.
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Then, we return to the Discerning Center (Aware Ego) position and feel able to simultaneously feel and appreciate all the voices we embody. We can make appropriate choices, taking all our voices into consideration.
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APPRECIATE & COORDINATE YOUR PARTS FROM YOUR CENTER: Experiential Cues
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Facilitate your parts’ integrated functioning with Voice Dialogue, Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone’s system for experiencing your energies. You get to recognize your parts. They’re your alternate personalities. You change chairs and speak as your several subpersonalities (also called “parts”, “voices”, “subselves,” or “subs”).
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Do the exercise yourself, then take others through the sequence to reinforce the method and make it automatic for you, so you can center yourself and not be overcome by a part seizing control of your behavior.
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Take an initial position, it will be the place for your CENTER, from which you learn to hear your inner voices.
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Talk about the voices you feel active lately (like Intellect, Critic, Pleaser, Pusher), the ones you show the world, and the ones you feel inside.
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EMBODY A PART: Choose one of your stronger and more public parts to focus on. Ask yourself what this part’s like and what it does for you.
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Then shift physically to a new position for the voice you focus on. Embody that voice, say who, as that part, you are, and WHAT YOU DO FOR YOUR PERSON.
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As this subself, say WHEN YOU CAME OUT in full and subsequently.
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As this voice, say HOW DO YOU PROTECT vulnerable subselves within your person?
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What CONTRIBUTIONS have you, as this subself, made to your person’s life? As the subself, what would you like to be acknowledged and appreciated for?
Return to the CENTER position.
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Stand. This is the WITNESS position. Summarize what the subself you embodied said. Feel the energy of each of your parts and again tell about them, but this time from the neutral, witnessing perspective.
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Return again to the CENTER chair and feel yourself in the middle, able to simultaneously feel and appreciate all your inner voices. Feel your ability in this position to make appropriate choices, considering all your voices.
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References
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Hal & Sidra Stone, Embracing Our Selves (Voice Dialogue & Aware Ego Process)
Carl Jung, Psychological Types, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id
Eric Berne, Games People Play (on “strokes”)
James Hillman, Re-Visioning Psychology
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