ABSTRACT
The term "political correctness"(PC) made its way into public consciousness through an article by Richard Bernstein in the New York Times. The revolt of the primordial mother, then, is not simply an attempt to overturn a paternal order, but an attempt to unravel the connection between paternal and maternal. In order to understand both the appeal and the danger of organization based on the primitive mother, it is necessary to underscore the fact that the primordial mother is a fantasy. The defenders of PC identify with the primitive maternal, an image of perfect moral purity, utterly without ambiguity. PC, as a social movement, is the form that this rebellion takes. Projective identification, helps to explain some of the vigor and verve with which the campaign for PC is pursued, and the unabashed hatred and contempt that the politically correct hold for those whom they attack.
