Gender of Abrahamic GodPsychoanalytical Perspective

Abstract

Recent developments in determination of natural grounds for non-binary gender identities unavoidably lead to religious fundamentals. In pagan paternalistic systems the binarity of religiose objects is presumed by default. Same for Christianity, where the paternity of God is unequivocally postulated. By the atonement of guilt for the "primary crime" - hypothetical murder of the forefather of primitive horde by his sons, Freud explains the idea of God in which the "law of the father" is objectified for all traditionalist religious experience. However, upon closer examination, the Old Testament concept of monotheism does not fit into the Freudian scheme since it opposes very Tradition by default. The radical opposition to pagan systems lies not so much in the singularity of Elohim, but in his transcendence, and thus non-binary. However, psychoanalysis presupposes only two primary mental instances - the instances of the Mother and the Father. There are no and cannot be any gender-neutral, non-binary images, except as a product of the repressed incestuous desire. The gender neutrality of the Abrahamic God, expressed in his transcendence, has no other grounds than in the repression of the incestuous urges of the infante. Psychoanalytical review of the Fall determines God as the dominant Mother, who prevents the initiation and socialization of Adam-infant, while the instance of the initiating Father represented by Tempter Serpent. We are dealing with the objectification of the mother's desire as a way of justifying the subject's infantile narcissism.