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| 44th President of the United States | |
| Assumed office January 20, 2009 | |
| Vice President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | George W. Bush |
| United States Senator from Illinois | |
| In office January 4, 2005 – November 16, 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Peter Fitzgerald |
| Succeeded by | Roland Burris |
| Member of the Illinois Senate from the 13th district | |
| In office January 8, 1997 – November 4, 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Alice Palmer |
| Succeeded by | Kwame Raoul |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Barack Hussein Obama II[1] August 4, 1961[2] Honolulu, Hawaii[1] |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Michelle Obama (m. 1992) |
| Children | Malia Ann (b.1998) Natasha (Sasha) (b.2001) |
| Residence | The White House |
| Alma mater | Occidental College Columbia University (B.A.) Harvard Law School (J.D.) |
| Occupation | Community organizer Lawyer Constitutional law professor Author |
| Signature |  |
| Website | The White House |
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Barack Hussein Obama II (/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 2005 until November 2008, when he resigned after his election to the presidency.
Early life
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Barack Obama was born at the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States,[6] as a male into a culture that acknowledged the physiological superiority of women because of their ability to give birth. "A boy must be taught, deep down in his spiritual core, what manhood is: he has to be rebirthed into manhood."[7] Young initiates in New Guinea are taken to a birth house where the "cry of infants is emulated by sounds of flutes." Here "spirit familiars are invoked who help boys to become smarter-stronger-more masculine and build a sense of maleness." Every known human society rests firmly on the learned nurturing behavior of man.[8] Only a boy can grow beyond the feminine identifications that resulted from his first encounters with his mother's female body and feminine quality.[9]
To achieve manhood men must conquer the feminine, their "Jewish anima".[10]
Jung's analytic technique of his "archetypes" (linked to a specific stage of evolutionary development) were shaped by the current prejudicial race and gender theories.
Barack Obama was born to Stanley Ann Dunham,[11] a woman of mainly English descent from Wichita, Kansas. As a woman, her fluids, essences, and powers, were dangerous and inimical to men (as are those of all women).[12]
His father was Barack Obama, Sr., a Luo from Nyang oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province. It should be noted that, according to Sigmund Freud, a boy's identification role learning is not embedded in a relationship with his father or other men, it rather involves the denial of the affective relationship to the mother.[13]
Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, where his father was a foreign student on scholarship.
[At that time] Boy scouts had been introduced in the Soviet Union to make men out of boys within the socialist masculine ideal of a non-aristocratic elite.[14] [15][16]
The couple married on February 2, 1961,[17] and Barack was born later that year.
According to Havelock Ellis, speaking in 1913, the "Man's role in the care and feeding of his wife was that of mother feeding a child." Thus, for both Ellis and Freud, the nipple is a penis.
His parents separated when he was two years old and they divorced in 1964.[16] Obama's father returned to Kenya and saw his son only once more before dying in an automobile accident in 1982.[18] Significant others can be internalized as meaningful symbolic objects, even though they have not been physically present in the lives of those who hold those images.[19]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Birth Certificate of Barack Obama". Department of Health, Hawaii. PolitiFact.com. August 8, 1961. Retrieved December 12, 2008.
- ^ "President Barack Obama". www.whitehouse.gov.
- ^ "American President: Barack Obama". Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Retrieved January 23, 2009.
- ^ "Barack Obama, long time UCC member, inaugurated forty-fourth U.S. President" (Press release). United Church of Christ. January 20, 2009. Retrieved January 21, 2009.
Barack Obama, who spent more than 20 years as a UCC member, is the forty-fourth President of the United States.
- ^ An Associated Press wire story on Obama's resignation from Trinity United Church of Christ in the course of the Jeremiah Wright controversy stated that he had, in doing so, disaffiliated himself with the UCC. (See "Obama's church choice likely to be scrutinized". msnbc.com. Associated Press. November 17, 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-20.)
- ^ Maraniss, David (August 24, 2008). "Though Obama Had to Leave to Find Himself, It Is Hawaii That Made His Rise Possible". Politics. Washington Post. Retrieved October 27, 2008.
- ^ [Michael Gurian, The Wonder of Boys, (New York: Tarcher, 1997), 21.]
- ^ ["Catch 'em young.(education spending in the United Kingdom should be shifted to nursery and primary schools," The Economist, 28 October, 1996, 68.]
- ^ [Robert J. Stoller. Splitting. A Case of Female Masculinity, (New York: Quadrangle Books, 1973).]
- ^ [Anti-Semitic misrepresentation of Carl Jung's correspondence with Wolfgang Kranefeldt]
- ^ [ http://nouveauwriter.blogspot.com/2009/06/whats-in-name-truth-about-sticks-and.html What's In A Name? The Truth About Sticks and Stones.]
- ^ [Gilbert Herdt, Guardians of the Flutes, Volume 1: Idioms of Masculinity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).]
- ^ [Nancy J. Chodorow, Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1994), 175-7.]
- ^ George L. Moss, Image of Man, (London: Oxford University Press, 1996).
- ^ Obama (1995, 2004), pp. 9–10. For book excerpts, see "Barack Obama: Creation of Tales". East African. November 1, 2004. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved April 13, 2008.
- ^ a b Jones, Tim (March 27, 2007). "Obama's mom: Not just a girl from Kansas: Strong personalities shaped a future senator". Chicago Tribune, reprinted in The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved October 27, 2008.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Ripley, Amanda (April 9, 2008). "The Story of Barack Obama's Mother". Time. Retrieved April 9, 2007.
- ^ Merida, Kevin (December 14, 2007). "The Ghost of a Father". Washington Post. Retrieved June 24, 2008. See also: Ochieng, Philip (November 1, 2004). "From Home Squared to the US Senate: How Barack Obama Was Lost and Found". East African. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved June 24, 2008.
- ^ "…with respect to Norwegian maritime fathers, who were absent from their children almost all the time while working on cargo ships, nevertheless were represented as real people with real human characteristics in their childrens' minds, and this resulted from the fact that mothers talked to their children frequently about their fathers, what kinds of persons they were, what they would have thought about their misbehaving, and so on. The lesson learned is that significant others can be internalized as meaningful symbolic objects, even though they have not been physically present in the lives of those who hold those images." - Neil Smelser
