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Diagramme 2: Terminations of Jealousy & Narcissism
Diagramme 3a: Social Identity
Diagramme 3b: Oedipus Complex
Diagramme 3c: Authority Transference
Diagramme 4a: Individual Identity
Diagramme 4b: Individual Authority
Diagramme 1
Infancy . Trauma . Responses
Identification with
Guilt Jealousy
parent
Infancy
trauma
Pride Absorption in self Narcissism
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Diagramme 2
Terminations of Jealousy & Narcissism
Jealousy : self-pity mode + anxiety need for social approval.
: love mode + anxiety transference.
Narcissism : vanity mode + anxiety inferiority complex.
: love mode + anxiety egoism.
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Diagramme 3a
Social . Identity
Transference
Infancy Identification
Guilt Jealousy
trauma with parent
Need for
social
approval
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Diagramme 3b
Oedipus . Complex
Infancy Identification
Guilt Jealousy Transference
trauma with parent
(sexual form)
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Diagramme 3c
Authority . Transference
Infancy Identification
Guilt Jealousy Transference
trauma with parent
(authority
form)
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Diagramme 4a
Individual . Identity
Egoism
Infancy Absorption
Pride Narcissism
trauma in self
Inferiority
complex
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Diagramme 4b
Individual . Authority
Infancy Absorption in
Pride Narcissism Egoism
trauma self
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Effects . on . Identity
The links in the table on the left take you to sub-headings in this
article.
Beliefs and Identity
Sub-headings
People require beliefs. People cannot function
Fear and confusion
harmoniously without beliefs that make sense of
their lives.
Function of
abreaction
The problem here is that beliefs gradually become
inadequate and so need to be changed and updated.
Advantages of
But people are not willing to change their beliefs. A
instability
process is needed which forces them to change. This
Stages to abreaction
is the role, the function, of abreaction.
Reference
In a stable society, when a person has achieved an harmonious lifestyle,
underpinned by adequate beliefs, then abreaction may be a rarity. Each person
has learned how to satisfy his needs, which do not alter. He has no reason to
change his beliefs.
Whereas, times of social change indicate that needs and opportunities are
changing ; beliefs have to change too so that each person can meet the new
challenges and continue to make sense of life. Abreaction becomes a regular
aspect of human life in times of change.
Abreaction revolves around belief systems. Belief systems that are self-
contradictory or are out of harmony with evolving needs will, sooner or later,
generate abreaction.
As the child grows up, its immediate task is to create an identity for itself. It
experiences different areas of life repeatedly  politics (of the family), religious
beliefs (of the family), sexuality (both its own and the parents), social
relationships, etc. These different experiences generate different beliefs, which
may or may not be harmonious with each other. For example, its political beliefs
may orientate around power, its sexual beliefs may orientate on fear, and its
religious beliefs around guilt. [ This is why I focus on systems, or patterns, of
beliefs, rather than individual beliefs].
The child creates its identity by the way that it learns to put value on its systems
of belief. In effect, an identity is an ideology, or a system of beliefs where some
are valued more than others.
When a child has a happy upbringing, any belief is likely to be harmonious with
the other beliefs. On this basis the child can construct a stable identity.
The outcome is different for a child who experiences dominant fear and anxiety
during its early childhood. When fear and anxiety become dominant in one area
of life, then the beliefs generated in that area are not harmonious with the
child s beliefs in other areas of its life. Its identity is potentially unstable.
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Fear and Confusion
Fear creates barriers in the mind. These barriers separate the mind into
compartments that do not inter-act with each other.
Another complication is that due to confusion. Confusion produces the opposite
effect to fear: it produces fuzzy boundaries between different needs and
different beliefs. The child may not be able to separate its own sexuality from
the sexuality of its mother and / or its father. It may not be able to separate its
own needs from the needs of its parents.
Likewise, for example, the child s sexual beliefs may shape its religious beliefs.
Beliefs that sexual activity should be free and unrestrained by social mores may
stimulate religious beliefs that incorporate  free love in the community (such as
the anabaptists of the 19th century). Beliefs on the grandeur of sexual purity
may fertilise bleak and intolerant religious views (such as Puritanism).
Confusion is the result of a lack of awareness: the child is not aware
of the manner in which its needs shape its beliefs.
Overall, the child s sense of identity is fragmented and confused to the extent
that its mind s contents are either compartmentalised by fear or blurred
together by confusion. The unhappy child has a patchwork pattern of beliefs,
and so has a patchwork identity. The happy child has a consistent pattern of
beliefs, and so correspondingly his sense of identity is harmonious. In the
modern Western world, a happy childhood is an unlikely event. Whence the
difference between stability and instability is a relative one, depending on the
intensity of fear and anxiety that maintain the barriers in the mind, aided by a
lack of awareness.
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Function of Abreaction
In the process of personal growth, beliefs that are no longer useful or productive
need to be dissolved and then replaced by more adequate ones. Since many
important beliefs are subconscious ones, a process is needed to bring them into
awareness. This is what abreaction achieves. Abreaction ensures that beliefs,
whether conscious ones or subconscious ones, that are relevant to any
particular current problem become susceptible to analysis and evaluation.
Abreaction gives the opportunity to update beliefs; this is an on-going process,
since any belief is only adequate for a time. No matter how adequate and
effective a belief is at the moment, sooner or later it will need updating. [This is
why I classify beliefs as adequate or inadequate, rather than good or bad, true or
false. Even present  good beliefs will eventually need to be replaced as the
person evolves].
In effect, personal evolution is a process of continually updating the
person s sense of identity.
The child creates its sense of identity from its various patterns of belief. As the
normal child grows into the adult, earlier patterns are replaced by more mature
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