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These contents serve as links to my very critical reading of Hide & Seek in terms of point-i, that everything is word, but that word is not everything, and that the psyche truly is the Trojan Horse in what is an escalating assault by scapegoating, on humanity. See DSM5

Contents ix
0. Introduction 1
Part I — Abstraction 5
1. Denial 7
2. Repression 15
3. Anger 23
4. Dissociation 29
5. Intellectualization 35
6. Rationalization 39
7. Positive illusions 45
8. The manic defense 49
9. Depression 55
Part II—Distortion 65
10. Displacement 67
11. Somatization 73
12. Reaction formation 81
13. Minimization 91
14. Symbolization 93
15. Reification 103
Part IIIA—Evasion through fraud or fantasy 111
16. Vagueness 113
17. Inauthenticity 115
18. Reconstruction of reality 121
19. Confabulation 123
20. Splitting 127
21. Deanimation 133
22. Daydreaming 137
23. Regression 141
Part IIIB — Evasion through people or the world 145
24. Socialization 147
25. Garrulousness 149
26. Dramatization 151
27. Grandiosity 153
28. Humour 161
29. Asceticism 163
30. Sublimation 171
31. Altruism 177
32. Anticipation 181
33. Fear and anxiety 185
Part IV — Projection 193
34. Projection 195
35. Projective identification 201
36. Idealization 203
37. Devaluation 209
38. Identification 211
Final word 215
Index 241

Dissociation

Self-deceptions are the constitution of the ego, i.e., one's executive agent, one's I.

Dissociation is necessary confirmation and rationalization as the notion that one does and has things. It is thus the isolation of affect by objectifying feeling to make of it a thought.

Dissociation even in its supposedly useful mild form is one of the most obnoxiously duplicitous of all the self-deceptions. Even where it is conscious and appropriate, it rigidifies institutions as tyrannies run by ego.

Caution: Dec 11, 2021 #n01 — Is non-violence (point-i) impossible?

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