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“The Vygotskian model of inner speech proposes that it develops from conversations with other people, and thus retains that quality of switching between different points of view. In her private speech, Athena asked herself a question (‘What am I doing?’) and then answered it by treating it as if it had come from another person (‘I’m going to make a train track’).”
― The Voices Within
― The Voices Within
“Maybe you’re always on an “even keel,” with no horrible lows but without any wonderful highs either. People who repress their feelings tend to repress the entire spectrum of emotions, not just one or two of them. If you’re the sort of person who tells others that “there’s no point in crying over spilt milk,” you may tend to deny your own feelings of loss.”
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“Unlike real people, the imaginary friend or love object never lets you down, never wants something different from what you want, never behaves in careless ways that hurt you.”
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“People who rely on “thinking” and intellectualization as their primary defense mechanisms may live so entirely in their heads that they have little contact with their bodies, where need and desire are noticed. They may seem very “dry” (a client once described these people as having “no juice”); they may come across as cerebral and even asexual.”
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“You can also see splitting used by the extremely angry environmentalist who I described in the last chapter, the hostile animal rights activist who fights to protect innocent creatures or the environment with intense hatred, directed at ruthless corporate polluters or evil laboratory scientists. They may feel and often are justified in their anger; but when splitting is excessive, their worldview becomes simplistic: cartoon-like bad guys versus the pure and innocent victim. They have split off their aggressive feelings and chosen an outlet they find more acceptable, but the price they pay is a lack of genuine intimacy in their friendships, as well as in their family and romantic relationships. Sudden, unexpected surges of powerful emotion, especially when it’s hard to explain the intensity of those feelings in the moment, often indicate the breakdown of splitting as a defense mechanism.”
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