[...]thropological work of ="ppl">Strauss on the exchange of gifts that regulate kinship ="trms">relations, emergence of ="trms">symbolic structures was conceptualized as an essential feature of the human ="trms">transition from ="trms">nature to culture, to Saussure's theory of the sign='lgc'>: exchanges of signifiers, to ="ppl">Lacanian psychoanalysis='lgc'>: the impose of ="trms">symbolic structures on sexuality='lgc'>]


defense='lgc'>: reaction of the ego to certain ="trms">interior stimuli (and not the external) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Freud
(in ="ppl">Lacan='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*defense='lgc'>: permanent ="trms">symbolic structures of subjectivity ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*resistance='lgc'>: ="trms">transitory ="trms">imaginary ="trms">responses to intrusions of the ="trms">symbolic (on the side of the object)

the ="trms">neurotic and the ="trms">pervert defend themselves in their ='strcls'>*desire='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= psychotic defends himself in their ='strcls'>*projection='strcls'>*

“to desire” is a defense mechanism (against going beyond a certain limit in jouissance='qstn'>?)

(>this is all about) the psychotic ="trms">relation to reality and the ="trms">relation of the subject to his speech

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='strcls'>*unreal is transparent (for the ="trms">paranoid)='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-hermeneutics of suspicion (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Nietzsche's perspectivism='lgc'>: all texts are but autobiographic ="trms">memoirs)


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='lgc'>[="ppl">Searles='lgc'>]

="trms">schizophrenic individual is struggling with the ="trms">question, not so much of ‘how to relate,’ but ‘whether to relate’ to others

="large lg1" stl="font-size:144%"> (="ppl">Searles's ="trms">interpersonal ideal='lgc'>:) connection='lgc'> = relatedness without merging

spontaneous involvement of the therapist in terms of counter="trms">transference (pygmalionesque ="trms">love='qstn'>?)

psychological illness='lgc'> = a dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance of ="trms">natural tendency to heal others (patient's unconscious therapeutic initiative)

“all patients have the ability to ‘="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read the unconscious’ of the therapist” (="ppl">Searles)

='strcls'>*acknowledging what the patient's ="trms">transference ="trms">materializes='strcls'>*

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="nms">apass's aetiology='lgc'>: the philosophical study of ="trms">causation of disease
(deriving from the ="trms">Greek words aitia='lgc'> = cause and logos='lgc'> = word/speech) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “tell me what causes your psychosis or art”

(thing that actually drives you crazy='lgc'>:)
other individuals ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ tormentingly insecure ="trms">nature of the ever-ambivalent ="trms">symbiotic relatedness in infancy and ="trms">childhood='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">schizophrenia
nonhuman environment ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">Anxiety(='qstn'>?)
="trms">symbolic bad object ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> depression(='qstn'>?) (always an active state)

(poorly ="trms">integrated personality ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) externalized psychosis (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= “acting out”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (="trms">situations which will) engender psychosis in other people (='strcls'>*whereas they themselves remain immune from overt ="trms">symptoms='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- in smaller/="trms">different doses of psychological assault of the very selfish people who externalize their “ideas” and “impressions” by telling effective ="trms">stories about them, and so on. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**determine psychosis in others and protect themselves from psychosis='strcls'>** ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Arjang, ="frds scrmbld">Jassem, ="frds">Sina, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali )

psychological assault by parent upon the ="trms">child (reflected in the ="trms">child's earliest delusion) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> meeting ="trms">child's own defensive and aggressive requirements to avoid psychosis='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">schizophrenia (="trms">symbiotic relatedness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> within an dependence-independence ="trms">schizophrenic struggle the patient's belief is that if he should improve and become well in the normal sense ='lgc'>[if he becomes an individual by separating himself psychologically from her='lgc'>], his mother would become psychotic)
(='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]adulthood='lgc'>: not getting crazy by others ='lgc'>[people, ="trms">pasts, events, objects, etc.='lgc'>] while connecting with them ='lgc'>~ ='at'>#my de="trms">finition of ="trms">storytelling http://="nms">ajayeb.net/='qstn'>?q=figuring='lgc'>+out='lgc'>+how='lgc'>+to='lgc'>+in="trms">herit)
(a psychodynamic='lgc'>:) ‘desire for individuation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> drive the mother crazy’ ='lgc'>~ ‘kill the parent ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> really grow up’


="ppl">Searles's notion of “tends to drive him crazy” (='lgc'>~ ="trms">schizophrenic) ='lgc'>: the initiating of any kind of ="trms">interpersonal ="trms">interaction which tends to foster emotional conflict in the other person='lgc'>--which tends to activate various areas of his personality in op="trms">position to one another


maintenance of a functioning ego

="lsts lst1">•inexperienced or unconsciously sadistic analyst (who makes ='strcls'>*premature ="trms">interpretations='strcls'>*) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> drive the patient psychotic (weaken the patient's ego to gradually assimilate previously repressed ="trms">material...)
="lsts lst1">•stimulate the other person sexually (in a setting where gratification is impossible='lgc'>--='thdf'>for example to behave in a seductive way toward the ="trms">child) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> conflict (between sexual needs on the one hand, and ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous super-ego retaliations)

parental double bind
='strcls'>**="trms">simultaneous or rapidly alternating stimulation-and-frustration of other needs='strcls'>** ='lgc'>==="ppl">Searles='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a dis="trms">integrating effect
='strcls'>**chronic pleas for ="trms">sympathy='strcls'>** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">child's desire and felt-duty to be helpful

="frds scrmbld">Jassem/="frds">Sina typically engaging the other in some politico-philosophical debate, in which he talks with machine-gun rapidity expressing himself with a virile kind of forceful, businesslike vigour (while the other feels quite strongly urged to argue some of these points with him, though not being given a chance to say much), while he strolls about on his mobile phone and posing himself physically irrelevant to the other ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when in-fronted with ="frds scrmbld">Jassem or ="frds">Sina, one feels strange (losing your mind, feeling like an insecure ="trms">child ='strcls'>*engaged in such a broadly divided ="trms">interrelatedness with a parent='strcls'>*) while that feeling appears as simply a ‘crazy’ product of one's own ="trms">imagination

(is non-="trms">verbal ="trms">interaction always sexual='qstn'>?)

nonsequitur (a typical ="trms">schizophrenic ="trms">technique)

(to get free from) the delusion that you had had not one mother but many ="trms">different ones

a continual unexpected switching from one conversational topic to another without any marked shift in feeling-content is in itself a mode of ="trms">interpersonal participation which can have a significantly dis="trms">integrating effect upon the other person's psychological functioning ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a remark for me in my ="trms">lecture-performances, i can't cause dis="trms">integration on other people's thinking for the sake of art ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*to undermine the other person's confidence in the reliability of their own emotional reactions and of their own perception of outer reality='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> de-maintain grasp on reality ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- (often) artist's fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure to develop ='strcls'>**adequate reality testing='strcls'>**
="prgrph">-the artist is not allowed to make the audience crazy!!='qstn'>?='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Jassem, Dominguez's “mental cruelty”

="trms">techniques of undermining of ego-functioning (in the form of='lgc'>: deliberate experiments in the service of totalitarian political ideologies, cultural undercurrents in ="trms">present-day democratic ="trms">societies, and in the lives of the ="trms">schizophrenic)

="prgrph">-what are the effects of your work on other's ability of participation in life='qstn'>?

="ppl">Searles='lgc'>: effort to drive the other person crazy can be motivated predominantly by a desire to externalize the threatening craziness in oneself
(-artists do that='qstn'>?)

='strcls'>*introjected crazy parent='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> predominance of the one's own irrational and cripplingly powerful superego)
(parents, crazy or not crazy, are always introjected='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>])


="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> ="trms">love and solicitude (in mother-="trms">child relatedness) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> impel the ="trms">child to collaborate with mother in this pathological ="trms">integration
="prgrph">-="trms">child ="trms">loves her mother so deeply that he sacrifices his own developing individuality to the ="trms">symbiosis necessary to her personality-functioning


="frds scrmbld">Foad's psychology='lgc'>: bringing upon himself any catastrophe which is sensed as being inevitable, in his effort to diminish intolerable feelings of helplessness and suspense in the face of it


="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> (parents who are not sufficiently openly psychotic ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">child secret knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of parent's craziness ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="trms">child's ="trms">transference ="trms">phenomena ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> always one or another of the parents was “a little crazy”
='lgc'>[='lgc'>+ not to mention that one strugghng against a developing psychosis will project his or her own threatening ‘craziness’ on to one or another parent='lgc'>]


desire to find a soul-mate to assuage unbearable loneliness ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a parental motive reflected in ="trms">child's fanatical loyalty to the parent
(the very lonely person who hungers for someone to share her or his private emotional experiences and distorted views of the ="trms">world) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “tried out” her ="trms">paranoid ideas on him (!!='strcls'>**)
='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> chronic ="trms">schizophrenia='lgc'>]

our immediately and vividly real parent-image ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a libidinally cathected reality

(to get free from) our magically ‘close,’ magically ‘="trms">mutually understanding,’ two-against-the-="trms">world relatedness with the parent

="large lg5" stl="font-size:131%"> infantile-omnipotent relatedness between='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the ‘sickest’ least mature areas of the parent's personality
="lsts lst1">•the patient's personality
='lgc'>==="ppl">Searles='lgc'>='lgc'>==> obstacle to the patient's becoming well

="trms">transference development='lgc'>: therapist ine[...]