Setting the maximum control over everything that is somehow connected with reflection, narcissistic power not so much to punish someone, how many saves himself.
Even fluent evaluation of collective consciousness and mass psychology of the Russian society points to a number of changes, particularly related to regression with a return to archaic, primitive and extremely dangerous conditions. This conclusion summarize the various explanatory diagrams and diagnostic equipment. So, in the Imperial syndrome and the aggravation of the jealous, vengeful aggression, much due to the phenomenon of ressentiment — from Nietzsche and Scheler to Sergei Medvedev. However, with the deepening of the crisis emerges is not only moral degradation, but also classics psychiatry complex disorders of different etiology. Perhaps more than any other in this series is evident narcissism — pathological syndrome, painful narcissism of power, and indirectly — and particularly the mass of her enthusiastic admirers. However, this complex is implemented is more complicated than it might seem to a layman, familiar with the legend of Narcissus and Echo in Ovid’s presentation or Kuna. Therefore, a series of publications about progressive narcissism have to start with a common methodology.
Trauma reflections
Reflection and self-criticism — an essential feature of any common mind, even if it is collective, and Russian. But with this there are problems, and then study of the mentality and the mental organization of the masses can lead to the conclusion that the disorders requires skilled diagnosis and treatment. It is not just about some not quite the usual features of our collective consciousness, psyche and changing them, but about the disease — about the clinic in the truest sense of the word with the typical Narcissus syndrome delusions of grandeur, omnipotence and grandiosity, but at the same time self-sublimation of fears, debilitating shame, feelings of inferiority and exclusion is all good. Ends of classical death drive: mode, like Narcissus kills himself with an irresistible passion to his own reflection.
Similar symptoms in the policy, behavior and self-assessment regime, as well as politically biased mass are observed constantly, starting with a fixation on identity, with delusions of omnipotence and easy delusions of grandeur and ending with a fierce intolerance of criticism, a painful reaction to everything that hinders the enthusiastic experience of one’s own grandiose Self. Therefore, even driven social booking, politically exhausted, and almost demoralized the opposition at the moment is absolutely not dangerous for the regime, causing intolerable itching of suppression: even if it does not threaten, it is simply stopping to live, and very seriously. Even marginal criticism destroys essential Narcisse psychic protection. It spoils the perfection of the reflection, and it is for a narcissistic personality terrible trauma and wound. To influence the reflection of the daffodil is to dig something sharp in his body or scratching the glass of the portrait (than actually doing any rudalevige centers). It is not dangerous, but it is intolerable, therefore, setting the maximum control over everything that is somehow connected with reflection, narcissistic power not so much to punish someone, how many saves himself — repeatedly layered his mental defenses.
Private and public
Mental disorders are usually associated with personality problems. However, a mental disorder in relation to social group, mass and even to society as a whole — not just an analogy, not an image, or a metaphorical shift. The idea of collective narcissism present in psychology since Freud; qualification of the society as “not quite healthy” by Erich Fromm. And now “political psychiatry”, “collective patient,” etc. — rehabilitated concepts in science. The question here is not so much for the theory, and to its extremely hesitant to apply to our realities, to study our own experience and society. The fact that such a spectacular and explicitly suggests the diagnosis almost never is fulfilled and social science, and sensation-seeking journalism, and even the sharpest opponents of the regime, indicates the presence of a special, additional protections and interlocks, the universal unconscious repression.
The difficulties begin with the fact that the real extent of such disorder (the boundary beyond which moderately high self-esteem becomes destructive, becomes narcissistic delusions and begins to destroy the life) to correctly detect is not as easy — if not to indulge in a flamboyant journalism typical of the genre exaggerations. This is particularly problematic in relation to groups and communities where “normal” is shifted; in terms of self-esteem and revaluation to the peoples, States and countries sometimes forgiven what individual comrades hospitalitynet. However, the effects of a malicious narcissistic disorders, for example, ethnic groups and Nations can be devastating and tragic consequences incomparable with individual deviations, however acute they may be.
The problem of the patient and the analyst position
In the political pathopsychology more than usual, exacerbated the problem of the patient. The psychiatrist, working with individuals, difficult to break through the armor of self-defense”, which surrounds himself with pathology (here would fit the term queer student of Freud, Wilhelm Reich’s “character armor”). The more such contact difficult, and often impossible with regard to the mass consciousness and collective pathologies, additionally protected by the invisible support of millions of excited supporters, the official ideology and psychotropic propaganda, and living social and political interest. These are the cases where the patient feels healthier all healthy, and treatment efforts, presentation of the diagnosis or at least a sensitive analysis of his own mind perceives as an insult and an attack on the sacred. Here sacrality and inviolable everything with a leader with his divine charisma and ending with his own perfection of man in his involvement in the Assembly of a Grand whole. These reactions are so timid that most objective sociological service of fear and resentment on the direct mirror can be declared a foreign agent.
In politics, even a hint of a deformation of consciousness is interpreted as a challenge and a frontal attack, whereby the therapist begins brutally and mercilessly “treated”. To the extent that such a pathology affected the power of the state, there is a chance that patients will soon declare himself a psychoanalyst. And well, if such a counter-diagnosis will merge bots and used metaphorically, as a political curse, not as a direction to the appropriate institution — therapeutic or corrective. Repressive, punitive psychiatry is a proven deterrent to unauthorized analysis of the consciousness of a sick society.
But for the analyst, there is always the risk of the PE — the temptation to put impartial a diagnosis to the patient, simultaneously being a political opponent. Such a study is too convenient as a means of debate, struggle and emotional revenge. It is as if the psychoanalyst and the patient in life, shared power, woman or business. In such cases, the reflection and self-criticism are significant not only from the point of view of scientific integrity, but also to ensure interaction: the application of theory and a working diagnosis will always at first be seen as something of a political arms, increasing thus the “shell” of the study consciousness and counter-aggression. This is a more General problem: criticism of the regime on the part of all the oppositions and their likes do not “pass” and not perceived as something which can have constructive or at least a diagnostic sense. And it would be wrong to believe that this wine only the deaf power.
Self-examination in psychiatry — a normal practice; it is considered mandatory most pre-Analytics to work out their own narcissistic tendencies and mechanisms. This is necessary to withstand narcissistic provocations” of the client, engaging with them in “auto competition,” not to ridicule his “psychoanalytic power” and “therapeutic grandiosity”.
Political psychiatry is not even in the most severe cases, this is even more difficult. Triggered the effect of “temporary deafness”, as the ill-mannered dogs. If you do not write for your pleasure and like-minded people, and for the overall understanding and any real effect, you have to think about that in the environment of the patients you just don’t perceive, and it is unprofessional. Therefore it is necessary to go on cunning.
Game theory
If you just start with a living consciousness and the tabulation of symptoms under a bad diagnosis, in politics, this conclusion is rejected with a guarantee. At the time of the President’s administration was the standard term “in the clear” — so reacted too bold by the tone of incoming documents regardless of their content.
However, there are some extravagant, but a simple method for joint analysis of disease — from the perspective of “curious Amateur”. You can try to make the opposite move: from the development client the common symptoms and pathogenesis to understanding the real clinical picture, including his own. The idea is to go from the method to the subject: to be read in conjunction with the patient is extremely exciting, although professional psychiatric literature as if no reference to real object initially was not planned. Tactic: we do not put a diagnosis and did not even allude to serious problems with the brains of a modern Russian society — we just read the scientific description of the disease, very interesting in itself (and all “about the crazies”), and if such descriptions are similar to something familiar and native, the worse the disease, but it is better for the patient.
The effect of recognition in the mirror” can give the customer so vivid, compelling and completely finished the description of his own pathology that he involuntarily, and even against the will of the diagnoses himself. It seems to be written at all, and it turns out that especially for us — about the boss, about his self-esteem, self-image and PR, about our ideology, propaganda, foreign policy, the press, television and mass media, to put it mildly, elation, rising to exaltation. Having learned at least something from this popular of psychiatry, begin to see the TV familiar cute face in a different way to hear their proud self-esteem. Sometimes this knowledge helps the patient to take a different attitude to himself, to think about their own self-evaluations about the arrogance of the regime as a whole.
The initial symptoms and the development of the theme
In fact, even if “without reference” to read the literature on destructive narcissism or the deficit, even in the extreme generalizations of scientific systematics to detect piercingly accurate description of the realities of the current Russian political consciousness, while seeming we perhaps too complacent and sometimes even narcissistic, but not clinical.
That’s just one explanation of the syndrome: “a Grandiose sense of samozrejmosti; saveconnect fantasies of unlimited success, power; belief in own uniqueness; need for admiration; a sense of privilege; exploitativeness in interpersonal relationships; lack of empathy; envy of others ‘achievements; challenging behavior”. Add wild unbridled arrogance and boasting, has little in common with reality, the hysterical reaction to the criticism, and characteristic fits of rage towards anything that interferes narcissistic idealization of the beloved image. And compare all this with the tone and style samopomoc regime and its historical achievements, self-esteem, his place in the world and in history, with the manner without measure and taste to decorate your own favorite images of all kinds of political bows and ruffles. Too recognizable to comment, but too easy to to stop. In the continuation of the cycle of political narcissism, we consider this pathology to its greatest possible versatility.
First of all, we will be interested in “history”. The most convincing proof of the existence of the problem is that not so long ago, this same regime treated his unforgettable achievements and great qualities much more calmly and sensibly than in recent years, especially now. And, frankly, it all remember.
The next challenge is to distinguish between narcissism, which is considered normal, constructive, and even at certain stages of development required, and pathology, really difficult life and then destroying it. Malignant narcissism stems including from inferiority complex and lack of love at an early age that our “newborn” society in the first quarter of the century experienced to the full.
Finally, real-life, including cultural, social, political, and international problems that narcissistic pathology in power can do fatal and insoluble. I just recall that the canonical Narcissus died, not only from the suffering of impossible love to his own reflection, but from simple starvation. Love in their own way and craze to impress yourself and others in recent obviously prevents the country to think about the “physiology” — the need to produce something (except for effects), earn, eat and treated.
How to constructively “love yourself” without falling into a malignant disorder, is a science useful and very exciting.
