[...]rive 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)

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> 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'>])


="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


(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 lg1" stl="font-size:134%"> 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 inevitably becomes deeply immersed in the subjective experience of magical closeness and shared omnipotence with the patient

(offered to the patient in ="trms">childhood by the parent='lgc'>:) the ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure='strcls'>* to share the delights of being ‘crazy’ along with the parent


or='lgc'>:
(='qstn'>?="frds scrmbld">Jassem or ="frds">Sina's motive and genuine effort of) making the other person crazy (='lgc'>~ to weaken their personal ="trms">integration ='lgc'>~ to diminish the area of ego's competency) ='lgc'><='lgc'>~/='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> ='strcls'>*making the other person ="trms">present='strcls'>* (="ppl">Martin Buber) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fostering of the other person's ="trms">intra-personal and ="trms">interpersonal ="trms">integration or self-realization, (an effort to) to help the other person ='lgc'>[seen as a ="trms">child to become mature='qstn'>?='lgc'>] toward better ="trms">integration ='lgc'>~ ="trms">love

='lgc'>[for ="ppl">Guattari, the problem is not to reach an ="trms">integrated ego, but to constantly change the com="trms">position ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to unblock the ="trms">situation (reactive assemblages causing ="trms">paranoia) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to be able to do something else ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>=> to become someone else='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[how to learn your way out of philosophy as philosopher ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='strcls'>*to apprehend what you know='strcls'>* in a creative way='lgc'>]

="trms">loving relatedness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">responding to the wholeness of the other person (relating to a small ="trms">child or to a psychiatrically ill adult, and so on)

='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (which is fundamentally) a parental dis="trms">position ='lgc'>[and the offspring might re="trms">present a miscarriage of the parent's wish='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-the problem is that you cannot always know the precise ego-capacities of the other person
="prgrph">-your ="trms">interventions could be ill-timed or ill-attuned ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> dis="trms">integrating effect


="trms">questions regarding the processes of feedbacking in ="nms">apass='lgc'>: to help the other person (not to become aware of truth about themselves or their work, rather) to construct figures about themselves and their ="trms">relationships with others, figures which could provide the basis for rapid ego-growth and personality-="trms">integration. but sometimes it is too fast, the ego regresses, and it becomes an experience of developing psychosis

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> pathological defense='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•delusions
="lsts lst1">•="trms">hallucinations
="lsts lst1">•depersonalization
="lsts lst1">•

="trms">skilfully dosed and ="trms">skilfully timed increments in psychotherapeutic participation ='lgc'>[such as premature ="trms">interpretations ="trms">demanded usually in feedback sessions='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> op="trms">posite effects (rather than an ="trms">integrating effect upon the artist rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer)


the ="trms">schizophrenic patient's individuality resides partly in his ="trms">symptoms
(="ppl">Searles > Szalita-Pemow)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%">
='qstn'>?gratifications in the ‘crazy’ ="trms">symbiotic mode of relatedness (despite the ="trms">anxiety- and frustration-engendering aspects that it offers)

earlier struggle between ="trms">child and parent to drive each other crazy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> evolving ="trms">transference of the patient-therapist ="trms">relationship ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to crack each other


the economy ='strcls'>*feelings of confusion and unreality='strcls'>* for ="nms">iranians, in public political realm of state and individual ="trms">symbiosis, as well as ="trms">intersubjective early ="trms">childhood and parent ="trms">symbiosis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ways it enters cultural ="trms">imaginary and artistic expressiveness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*how and why ="nms">iranian artists often try to make their audience crazy='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[-and myself in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded, check ="frds">Sina ="trms">lecture's chaotic ="trms">verbalizations of delusional ="trms">materials ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> jouissance of disorganization='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-(in my ="trms">lectures) am i externalizing my psychosis='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ romantic='lgc'>]

="large lg5" stl="font-size:111%"> (mother repeatedly commanding the ="trms">child ‘Now, think!’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ to perceive the secret='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) threatened, mistrustful, isolated self ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> finding hidden meanings ='lgc'>+ sarcastic ="trms">response ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>=> unnerving the other='lgc'>]

small ="trms">children exposed to unfamiliar and complex ="trms">situations ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> often experience of ‘you are crazy!’


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