Tom Cruise on Scientology

Well, I think I'm finally going to have to write something about Cruise's psychosis, on display for all to see. After watching this video, it occurred to me Cruise has all the symptoms of what Lacan dubbed "psychosis": the unconscious is present (I mean, like Michael Jackson, there ain't no disguising the ID with this guy), but obviously the uncs. is not "working" like it should. More specifically, psychosis is a failure to integrate what Lacan dubbed the "paternal metaphor" or the Law-of-the-Father, which is another way of saying he hasn't internalized prohibition (a sense of "no!"); he has no inner-Moses. This results in "foreclosure" and a failure to disidentify with mumsie (think here of Norman in Psycho). What folks have been saying is Cruise's queerness (rumors of his being gay, and so on) is actually a misidentification: it is psychosis that people are noticing, which can seem gay. If my argument is right, then Scientology is simply Mother-in-Disguise. Cruise initially sought Hubbard as a father-figure, a source of "no," as many of us do when we get religious (my joining the Masons, for example). Yet owing to the love-bombing of Scientology, Tom has only found just another mirror: "you are a level seven thetan, Tom, you are special; here's an award." So he continues to flip-out.

W-E-I-R-D, man. And totally, completely fascinating like a car wreck.