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>From: Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema <crdbronx at erols.com>
>To: "LBO-TALK" <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: Re: Chomsky News Network
>Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 13:19:30 -0400
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>Kelley wrote --
>
>"it reminds me of people who've been abused as children. they grow up and
>try to resist identifying with their abusive parents. "I will NOT be like
>them". and yet, they end up being like them. not because they're scarred
>for life or born that way, but because they cannot deal with the fact that,
>as abusive and awful as their parents were, their parents didn't abuse them
>all the time, that their parents often nurtured them and cared for them. to
>survive, they build a defense mechanism and they have to split the two
>experiences, the two identities. they make a choice to identify with the
>aggressor / the victim as helpless and despicable. they can't bear to
>identify with the nurturing parent / the victim as worthy of being cared
>for."
>
>This is very right, and straight out of Melanie Klein. You sound like you've
>been listening to Ted Winslow, which is a good thing to do.
>
>Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema