The enemy object is produced by a primal substitution

Evidence

Yet the father does not-he cannot-remain an enemy for long. Indeed, it is equally the case that, in the beginning and from the beginning, there was substitution. And it is this substitution that not only constitutes neurosis, but that also produces the enemy object, the enemy as substitutive object. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 438

Categorization

• XREF: Core mechanism (substitution producing the enemy) that underwrites the genealogical thesis linking hostility from primal father to Jew/Arab.