tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post4608198537659229727..comments2024-03-25T03:20:57.659-04:00Comments on My Daily Struggles: Significant Moments: Of Jews, "Jews," and SchizoidsMy Daily Struggleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-20360436621180975852011-05-15T21:21:08.640-04:002011-05-15T21:21:08.640-04:00Schizoids place a premium on emotional self-suffic...Schizoids place a premium on emotional self-sufficiency.<br /><br />Individuals who are self-reliant, solitary, resourceful, individualistic, and self sufficient will tend to attract envy and aggression in highly cohesive groups.<br /><br />Kernberg points out that in a group setting a narcissistic personality who can communicate effectively can provide the large group with an acceptable ideology and convey a sense of certainty without triggering the group's envy against individualized thinking. These abilities make such a leader the soother of the large group's tensions. Kernberg, O. <i>Ideology, Conflict, and Leadership in Groups and Organizations</i> at 8.My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-38285973482388624552011-05-15T21:12:37.552-04:002011-05-15T21:12:37.552-04:00The following post discusses my associations to Hi...The following post discusses my associations to Hitler's displacement of idealized feelings about his mother onto the German nation:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_784747241" rel="nofollow"><br /></a><br /><a href="http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2011/05/surveillance-by-akin-gump-how-it-might.html" rel="nofollow">http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2011/05/surveillance-by-akin-gump-how-it-might.html</a>My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-29198801741201204002011-05-15T20:56:37.315-04:002011-05-15T20:56:37.315-04:00In his book Ideology, Conflict, and Leadership in ...In his book <i>Ideology, Conflict, and Leadership in Groups and Organizations</i> the psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg contends that in some groups, the group-as-a-whole serves as an all-giving symbolic "breast mother" that sanctions impulse gratification by group members without guilt or remorse. <br /><br />The outsider who is not affectively connected to the in-group attracts aggression from group members.<br /><br />The outsider who is cut off from the symbolic "breast mother" will suffer aggression by group members that will be comparable to the aggression experienced by Jews in relation to the anti-Semitic dominant in-group. We saw this dynamic in Nazi Germany, where the head of state himself identified the German nation with the breast mother.My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.com