UNEDITED Why We Prefer Narcissism or Psychosis to Mental Health? (RAW WA Real Convo)
August 29, 2020
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Double rejection, double trauma model:
1st rejection BIRTH
Mother rejects and ejects child
1st trauma POV SHIFT
2nd rejection SEPARATION-INDIVIDUATION
Child rejects mother
2nd trauma SELFHOOD
During 1st phase external and internal objects are unitary
Frustration (bad breast) leads to withdrawal: narcissistic investment in introversion (Jung)
Constellated Self
Non-unitary universe with privileged object and all other objects: a schism
(Kierkegaard, Buber’s encounter I-thou: eternal thou is God PSYCHOTIC hence religion, including secular; and experience I-it, objectifying others NARCISSISTIC, hence materialism)
Selfhood is traumatic, loss of control, alienation from the world, estrangement from oneself, persecutory object
Eros and Thanatos:
Libidinal and destrudo investment, cathexis
Reflects:
Two types of mother: fully dead (Green) and partly dead (Winnicott: good enough=safe base+dead)
The dead only rejects (death only)
The good enough also accepts (death and life)
We apply these schemas to objects (both self and others) and to collectives:
Dead objects (inertial, materialistic) generate confusion, disordered, disorganized personalities
Good enough objects result in mentally sound personalities
The key difference: relationship between external and internal objects.
Still, even if objects are good enough, we cannot tell the distinction between external and internal objects
Meaning=safety
What renders reality intolerable? Fuzziness of boundaries between external and internal.
Three successive phases, attempting to create meaningful narrative via organizing and hermeneutic principles:
Psychotic hyperreflexivity (Borderline, Codependency)
expansive identity diffusion (we are the world)
+dissipated self (diminished self-affection or self-presence)
+conflation of internal and external
Narcissistic grandiosity (Existentialists, Descartes, Frankl)
deflationary identity diffusion (l’etat ce moi)
+inflated (false) self
+conflation of internal and external
Nothingness
suspended identity
+calibrated self
+boundaries (this is where I cease to be and the world/you begin)
Human history unfolds like individual psychohistory:
Evolutionary embryology and vestigial structures
Collective unconscious and archetypes
Psychotic phase (religions both divine and secular)
Narcissistic phase (the Self usurps God: Descartes's cogito observer usurped God's role and this culminated in fusing Creator with observer in QM Copenhagen interpretation)
Nothingness
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