Kid A In Alphabet Land/Xenophobe
Xenophobe
Kid A In Alphabet Land Confronts the Xenophobe!
The xenophobe embodies fear of what is perceived as foreign or unfamiliar. Difference is experienced not as variation, but as threat.
From a psychoanalytic perspective, xenophobia often emerges from projection. What is disavowed within the subject is attributed to the other, who is then treated as dangerous or contaminating.
The xenophobe seeks security through exclusion. Boundaries are hardened in an attempt to preserve an imagined coherence.
Within Kid A In Alphabet Land, the Xenophobe blocks encounter. Kid A meets a refusal that reveals how fear of the other is bound to fear of oneself.