[lit-ideas] Re: The torture graph
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 18:28:34 -0400
Julie: You guys are *so* good for my vocabulary...
I was playing fast and loose with a medical term.
The point was bamboozling works both ways.
Believing everything the government says, and not
believing anything the government says...the same
thing.
For all we know, this could be a case of "The
NeoCon who cried Wolf!" Maybe we should have kept
our powder dry for Iran? Many people did ask, "Why
invade Iraq? Isn't Iran the real threat?"
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Ego-Syntonic - The opposite of ego-dystonic,
this term refers to behavior or mental acts, such
as thoughts, feelings, and desires, which are seen
as acceptable to the aims of the ego and the
related psychological needs of the individual. The
individual usually fails to see this behavior as a
problem and simply considers it as part of their
identity.
http://www.sparknotes.com/psychology/abnormal/personality/terms.html
Ego-syntonic object manipulation: the formation of
a submissive relationship.
Eckstaedt A.
Denial, acting on both the inner and external
world, relies on further defence mechanisms in the
form of object manipulations aimed at changing
reality to make it fit the denying person's inner
needs. If the object's ego is not strong enough to
resist these manipulations, it is pressured into a
submissive relationship. By means of seduction or
its opposite, intimidation and the use of threats,
the object is made to believe the content of the
denying persons's inner or external world. The
result is a mutually intrusive and reciprocal
relationship in which the roles of victim and
perpetrator alternate. This is the case when
children are not allowed to acquire their own
experiences during the process of transition from
symbiosis to separation. Constant exposure to
irritation leads to a regression of the ego, to
the illusion that everything is possible in the
'we'. Object relations in adult life are then
based on a parasitic need for the object in order
to realize inner goals. In analysis this is
manifested as symbiotic omnipotence, posing a
'serious stumbling block' to the analytic process,
which may take the form of an 'as-if' analysis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2793328&dopt=Abstract
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