>I don't remember ever being so completely baffled by anything as I
>was trying to comprehend this Double Bind thing-me-jig. Absolutely
>nothing makes sense of any kind, I don't even have any idea what it
>is I don't understand, is it some kind of cryptic joke? What's the
>point?
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How about this: your parents whom you adore are getting a divorce. The
mother tells indirectly that if you choose to continue to love the
father, you are betraying her, and the father tells indirectly that if
you choose to continue to love the mother, you are betraying him.
Or. You do some kind of work that you love, but you realize that this work is just another brick in the overall (capitalist) prison in which we live. Your success is your failure and vice versa.
Or. Your father tells you "If you love me, you will become an engineer." You have no interest in engineering but you love your father.
The victims of the double bind are often children too young to be able to parse what is happening.
Joanna