The amount of hatred or dislike is directly proportional to a falsified identity threatened. Amount of love is directly proportional to a true identity embraced. Obsession is a result of hatred and love in conflict with solidifying and defining themselves. It seems to me that the epitome of hatred would be Hitler, and love a self-actualized figure such as one I know of in one own culture, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The hypothesis is that the truer one is to ones true self and identity, meaning the stronger the embrace between ego self-gratifying instinct and the inner altruistic self, the more love one is able to impart toward another, whether on one level a partner, next level up family, with the next levels of community, society and ultimately world. A level beyond that of course could stretch beyond the uni-verse into inexplicable realms of G-dliness. The danger here however is that ones relationship with the undefinable can result to lower levels of self absorbment cutting off family, partner, and ultimately self.
The more one is distanced from ones true self, the more one is limited in their capacity to love altruistically. One could view this aspect of the inter-relationship between ones identity and ones self to be directly proportional to ones socialization, in other words the amount of love one imparts to ones family, next level community next level society, then world, nature, earth etc. Hot and cold variant behavior is a trait of the borderline personality, where identity for some reason experiences difficulty in being established. It is a luke warm identity where a master once said, is really the most hellish of any type of existence. I hypothesize that obsession is directly proportional to the in-acceptability of love in ones own self that results from early abandonment. In other words, the object of obsession is an outward manifestation of the abandoned fragment of ones own self, in fact a truer more significant part of ones identity. It clothes itself in love to an external object, only because it is the most lovable part of ones own identity that one has turned against long ago for some or other reason. The more intense the obsession, the more intense is the self abandonment.
In light of the above hypothesis then, Hitler would be a figure of extreme self abandonment. His pathology of hatred therefore is a direct result of his turning against an internal self-concept that in fact aches within him to be recognized and embraced, however, whose persistent ego and constructed identity finds itself unable to dissolve and resolve the issue of self abandonment. In other words, simply put, the Jew within Hitler's own self is abandoned by him to such an extent as to seek to annihilate it even in the external environment. Such an hypothesis also lends itself well to issues of homophobia where the homosexual is hated because of what he reminds or represents in the haters own inner self that has failed to be recognized and has been left abandoned, the hater seeking to annihilate the homosexual in the external environment what has failed to be annihilated or rather resolved within. Indeed, the resolution is simply too threatening, yet all it requires is an embrace that totally dissolves it into non-existence freeing the ego and the false identity.
Love acts in the same way, and truly the figures exemplary of love from ancient to modern times do not seek to annihilate at all, but rather to embrace and welcome. The figure of G-d has all too often been used for power, and has been corrupted and distorted to resemble more the variable of hatred rather than love. Truly loving human beings find themselves unthreatened and freely giving regardless of race, color, sexual orientation, culture, or creed. Their outer self identity is in accord with their true inner core, their Self of selves. Their personality and individuality are in embrace rather than disgrace. The proportion between that union of true self and identity manifests itself in their altruism and effect on their social as well as natural environment. A figure such as Moses is utterly in embrace with his true Self, thus we find he argues for the well-being of lives of even the gravest of all sinners, whose sin is to an extent so unimaginable to us. A figure such as Jesus, I find more difficult not because I am a jew, but because his is a story of the most complex variables that differs from Moses who possesses an almost limitless capacity for forgiveness, even though the founders of Jesus' faith have attributed to him the quality of an even higher order of forgiveness and limitless capacity for love. Unfortunately, it simply hasn't manifested that way with thousands and thousand of years of blood shed, particularly against the Jew whose loss of life culminated in his holocaust of global proportions. In other words, the evidence of that love and forgiveness is lacking in the epic of Jesus, as much as it gleams with beautiful and profound concepts of an ultimate forgiving and altruistic man, it falls short in its admixture with undeniable idolatrous falsehood that has lent its support to exercise its hatred and slaughter of countless Jewish lives.
Yet, yes, Love in its ultimate form is all of our destiny, that is to say that ultimately all false identities will dissolve and the ego and the true self will eventually arrive at an all-time embrace. The proverbial "on that day G-d will be One and His name One" is synonymous with the hypothesis laid down above. That the proportions between the relationship of identity with true self will be experienced to such a degree that there can only be imagined an abundance of such proportional magnitude immeasurable by the altruistic kindness that will be spawned of such a union. In other words, a time when all human beings will absolutely without a doubt will be their own true shining identities, the only identity that ever desired to exist within them. There will be absolutely no filter or guise to hide that true identity, for it is the life of lives, the Self of selves, one and unique within each and every one of us, as unique as the sum total of all of existence.
~ SR.
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