The sexual tension of a genocide

Philosopher and academic Edward Said said that Orientalism allows the West to free it’s imagination from the forbidden and, therefore enter the world of magical thinking. The way in which the West has constructed the Orient makes it the holding space for the secret life of the id (the unconscious realm) — one of two unbridled basic drives: to connect with the other. In this case a genocide is the ultimate absorption of the other which in most healthy societies works itself out, some times a little risqué; in a dark room in the early hours of the morning.