Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Haters gonna Hate: Negative Transference and Western Civilization

The importance of analyzing the latent negative transference, as stressed by Reich, and his consequent development of resistance and character analysis is reviewed.
“The Reading of Emotional Expression”: Wilhelm Reich and the History of Embodied Analysis

So let's see what this says.


we'll go to our favorite academic access website! thanks TechnoFeminist in hiding! 

 It was not until a patient told me, some months after the termination of an unsuccessful analysis, that he had never trusted me that I learned to appreciate the danger of the negative transference that remains latent.
 Undoubtedly, this can be traced back to our narcissism, which makes us highly receptive to compliments but quite blind to all negative tendencies in the patient unless they are crudely expressed. (Reich, 1933, 1949, 1972, p. 25)
 Reich was a genius who got "witch hunted" by Western civilization - not "witch hunt" as the term is now used by our "leader of the free world." haha. He is using it as a "negative transference" term! You see how phrases are actually psychological projections?
Reich came to identify latent negative transference as a secret resistance. Not expressed in the content of words, it manifests itself in the form of the communication, in “the way the patient speaks, looks at and greets the analyst, lies on the couch, the inflection of the voice, the degree of conventional politeness which is maintained” (p. 49).
So what are we dealing with here? What we perceive to be "evil" is actually a fake limitation of the greater Harmonic truth of reality - just as the devil was a fallen angel - only I'm talking on logical terms. People who are "evil" are in 'secret resistance" to their own psychological blockages!

Remember that Reich was confronting the evil of the Nazis - as a psychological projection. We can now expand that ten - now one hundred times - in today's "civilization."







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