Wilhelm Reich (1945) studied the influence that culture and social adaptation have on individuals from early childhood. Reich) said that children have their spontaneity repressed by education and therefore learn how to ignore things they see or to show appreciation for things they do not like. To be well educated means to be polite, kind, hide negative emotions and pretend everything is fine. To be adapted means to believe that family is always a place of love and security, even if it does not correspond to reality.
so from an external judgement, we may experience affirmation of our “educational” and social “adaptive” successes as confirmation of a “true” self, while the actual internal experience of Self is repressed until some external circumstances (i.e. bad things happening to good people) jog the repressed Self to effect consciousness.
