Psychoanalysis
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Detached Personality And Freedom
People with detached personality are highly sensitive to any type of coercion, perceived or real. Their obstinate refusal...
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Common Rationalizations
Hostility disguised as moral indignation Possessiveness disguised as love Clinginess disguised as love Despair disguised as sarcasm Sadism...
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Rationalization Versus Denial
Rationalization is the preferred strategy to continue with maladaptive thought and behavior patterns in the face of mounting...
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The Need To Be Understood
Most of us are desperate to be understood, to have that sense of isolation shattered by finding people...
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Sadism
Sadism is by no means confined to the sexual sphere. It’s a general life orientation, a way of...
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Freudian Characterology
For Freud libidinal energy, particularly its need to be channeled and released, was the primary motivator of human...
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Rationalization
A rationalization is a psychological strategy that allows for continued thoughts and behaviors that are known at some...
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Putting People On A Pedestal
When we put people on a pedestal we expect the impossible from them, we expect them to be...
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Masochism Versus Emotional Detachment
We have written about how those with detached personality are likely to rationalize their compulsive emotional detachment on...
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Ego
In Freud’s psychoanalytic system the ego was that very thin slice of the human psyche where determinism made...
