The Neurosis of misdirection & fractured identity tends to spread its cancerous mendacity
Early in this chapter Dr. Angyal speaks of the weakness which results from lack of conceptual clarity concerning what is to be encouraged and fostered. Here the idea of the "real self" emerges in functional terms-as a development consistent "with the principle of confident self-acceptance that governs the basic system of health." He continues: The healthy pattern must be sought and uncovered, not within the pseudo-normal surface personality where its vestiges serve merely to disguise the neurotic assumptions, but within the depth of neurosis itself. Only when the destructive and self-destructive attitudes . . . can themselves be shown to be distortions of healthy trends is contact with the real self established; one gets to it by going through the neurotic attitudes, not around them. Tracing manifest disturbances to the unacceptable motives generated within the neurotic framework takes one only halfway toward understanding them. This partial understanding fills the person with shame and guilt, which in themselves are not conducive to change. Real understanding traces the neurotic manifestation all the way back to its healthy sources.When the neurosis is discovered to be an approximation or a twisted version of health, the patient's outlook becomes hopeful. Trying to Avoid Pain, Americans Have Only Delayed the Invevitable and Allowed the Cancer to Spread http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GovernmentShadow/message/30767 "The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed..." -Steven Biko Hysterical Paralysis http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GovernmentShadow/message/29531 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GovernmentShadow/msearch?query=neurosis+of+misdirection&charset=windows-1252 Cognitive dissonance: recipe for totalitarianism --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ShadowGovernment -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
