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List of articles
on Psycho-Analysis
The two basic abreactions of guilt and pride are described in the articles on abreaction (accessible from the home page). The remaining two abreactions, those of narcissism and jealousy, are described in the article The Conversion Experience, on my websites The Strange World of Emotion and Patterns of Spirituality. See Links page.
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The .Psycho-Analytic .Experience |
| Characteristics | introduces the issues that feature in a psycho-analysis : motivation, self-deception, determinism, and more. | |
| Character transformation | the sequence from instability to stability to flexibility. One limitation to analysis. | |
| Process | handling memories and change. More limitations to analysis. Memories and themes. 1st rule. | |
| Content | begin with observations. Absorb ideas and re-structure belief systems. Idealism & will. 2nd & 3rd rules. | |
| Zig-zag journey | the journey through personal and social changes is a dialectical one. Plus relativism. |
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Method in a Psycho-Analysis |
| Self-Awareness | awareness training and variations on method. Will power and anxiety. Use of mindfulness in handling distress. | |
| Reverie & Dreams | from feelings to intellect. Notes on intelligence, intuition, tunes, and influence of media. Using a journal. |
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Roots .of .Identity |
| Transference | three factors of bonding, and the two forms of true transference. Stages and origins. | |
| Social approval & the inferiority complex | two primary needs that act on a person. Tests for separating them. | |
| Identification & absorption | the infant is reliant on these two mental characteristics to help create its ego. Intense experience. | |
| Infancy trauma | problems caused by lack of awareness in the parent- child relationship. Two strategies. | |
| Bonding | mechanics of imprinting and identification. Roles of parents and effects of envy. More on infancy trauma. |
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Patterns of Identity |
| Two Identities | social and individual identities, and the factors of which they are constituted. | |
| Effects of infancy trauma | five effects that help shape the person's identity : includes sensitivity and oedipus complex. | |
| The need for a stable identity | in a changing world, a person needs a stable identity. | |
| Diagrammes | the diagrammes in Two Identities collected together. |
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Abreaction as Therapy |
| Effects on identity | .function of abreaction ; effects of fear and confusion on identity ; instability ; stages of abreaction. | |
| Examples | descriptions of intense abreactions. | |
| Creative illness | exploration of the mind can produce illness ; loneliness, pain of insight, and handling the ego. |
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From the Old to the New |
| Justification | from old identities to new ones ; search for truth ; causality and motivation. Place of existential writers. | |
| Reversal of Values | catharsis reverses values ; role & sex reversal ; disjunctive states of mind, and the ideal mother image. |
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