PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Psy, Impulsivity, Developmental Psychology
Document Summary
Someone who has been through the depressive position (and can therefore repress) has developed a repressive barrier. This is obviously different from splitting between good and bad objects. A person who has been through the depressive position can repress- i. e. , push negative feelings (e. g. shame) down into the unconscious. Answer: they push the negative feelings (e. g. shame) out into the other person. Puck, on mtv real world, expelling snot-balls into other people"s breakfasts. He has nowhere in his own mind to repress them. Notice, he always gave a reason of the form that he was teaching them something. This tries to hide what he is really doing. So a central part of this process is brainwashing. The major form of projective identification is abuse. So when negative feelings (e. g. , shame) arise inside, the abuser has to push them out into the victim, and watch the feelings occur in the victim.
