[lit-ideas] Re: Sustained Incongruencies
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 18:19:36 -0400
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> From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: 4/2/2006 4:47:52 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Sustained Incongruencies
>
> ck: The more sustained incongruencies in one's
> personal life, the more
> hypocrisy and neurosis.
>
> Are you advocating for the Karen Horney reading in
> _Neurosis and Human Growth_ that the tension
> between the real self and the ideal self drives
> neurosis?
>
> Surely that's not the same as the ability to hold
> contradictory views in mind and suspend judgment,
> the so-called "negative capability"? Rather the
> incongruence in neurosis have to do with self
> concept and forms of desire. (E.g., "I am a great
> painter who will start painting as soon as I get
> time off from my Wal-Mart clerk job.")
>
This is bothering me. Further to my other post, it's a matter of degree.
So yes, lying to one's self (I'm a great painter but I have to work at
Wal-Mart) probably would qualify as false self. False selfs are a self
protective thing. The false self in this case might be externally imposed
(my son the great painter, when the son feels like a sham). It's very hard
to make absolute distinctions. In a case such as this, I'd be inclined to
think the person's making excuses might be as much a form of submerged
anger as it is protective, more a boundary issue, a way to keep mother out
of his face.
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