In the case of trauma the children try on “costume” of the aggressor. This mechanism has a protective function. Identificeres with the aggressor or with his emotions, like a child gets his traits, so he feels omnipotent, all powerful, big and scary, so if “I am ugly” - be afraid of me and I'm not afraid. It's not fear, it becomes a kind of game in “like not afraid”, but does not solve the problem.
Anna Freud describes the case when the child is experiencing fear of ghosts that prevent to go through the dark corridor, he portrayed a Ghost in order to protect themselves from experiencing feelings.
If such a mechanism allows to cope with fear (the aggressor), in the future, as they grow, he “save” and those who could be good and someone to fear, no reason.
In nature there such a phenomenon as mimicry. It is type fixtures when you which is safe view, looks like a threat (e.g., fly-gorzalka painted in the same bright warning black-yellow stripes, like a wasp).
the consequences of the fixation on the children's stage, when the developed this form of protection? Method is stored and unconsciously used in reference to someone who is somehow reminiscent of the aggressor or animates the very feeling of fear.
Signs that actualizes the fear can be different, for example, gender. So hysterical (in the clinical sense) – the girl, frightened by the father and such person any man unconsciously aggressor and then can be selected behavioural method of protection "to be like his father".
As such, fear is displaced, but the symbolic equivalent of his remains, thus any who have the same sexual organ as the father quickens the unconscious – the fear hidden in it and the emotion which had arisen in the past is revived and the object (in this example, the man) is perceived as an actual threat.
the Fear of any symbolic “things” is associated more often with childhood trauma that repressed deeply into the unconscious, and if once frightened not “thing”, but an event connected with it, but now meeting with this “thing” is experienced when an emotion.
this event is displaced so deeply precisely because of unbearable fear, and, removing it is extremely difficult, because the customer is also like a child is not able to meet him face to face. There is an effect of the circulation of “around” - the whole tragedy revolves around a certain thing – the symbol and the memory itself (the affect associated with it) is displaced.
Thus the ‘thing” remains as the trace of a memory.
These unconscious repressed fears – the main causes of phobias.
in order to get rid of panic chilling horror the child puts on himself “costume” of the aggressor, creating a “game”.
according to A. Freud, the protection of the fragile child I have been through the transformation of the subject in a menacing object.
Commit leads to disturbances in the relations, because the appearance of a predator deters similar. Stuck, people to flirt and is likened to the aggressor (or sense), i.e. as in “safe” for others (as a rule, a certain group of people: by gender, by profession, etc.), he causes his behavior to fear those who could be really interesting.
the Child dressed in behavioral “costume”, ie, acquires the external features «aggressor», however, the quality that caused the anxiety or fear is not acceptable – is not integrated inside the psyche, but externally, pripisivati “villain”.
the Child seems to want to say “I'm not the villain I play it”, because fragile I'm not ready to integrate aggression.
writes Anna Freud “identification” with the aggressor can be considered normal only when I uses this mechanism is in conflict with the authority trying to cope with the alert object, BUT this process becomes pathological when it goes on the love life of a person.
She gives the example “When the husband moves to the wife his own desire for infidelity, and then passionately accuses her of infidelity, in fact he androecium the reproaches of his wife and projects the portion of its It. His intention, however, is to protect ourselves not from external aggression, and the destruction of their positive libidinal fixation on her disturbing external forces”.
in the same way, are displaced and transferred to the outside and the other senses, such as wine.
this behavior is observed in General in relationships with people (not only in relation to the wife / husband) in the case of a child's fixation at the time of receipt of traumatic experience.
for Example, fear of school teacher may unconsciously determine the choice of profession by the identification.
the child's response to trauma by identifying with the aggressor (Davis)happens in the case of mental trauma when abuser "dominates the mental processes of the child" – defines and controls reality, while experiencing the child's feelings, his experience testing the reality otherwise.
the same situation is described in the known example with light bulbs that gave rise to the term ‘gaslighting” when the husband assured the wife that it “seems”.
this experience leads to an discrepancy in feelings and physical condition.
for Example, you may feel myself well physically, but at the same time experience a deep sense of "heavy heart" or conversely "soul singing”, and the body is in pain.
So a person feels, who was suspended from his own sense of reality, introduced, so to speak “alien”.
And such a broadcast, we meet often.
for Example, a person complains of experiencing headaches, and he said “Yeah, well, stop imagining things!”, or feeling the chills, and convince him that this can not be, or worse, faking it, etc., etc.
Many repressed feelings attack the body and have the tendency to increase, remain forbidden.
Raker distinguishes two types of identification: coordination and complementarity.
Coordination – when the victim identificeret with the aggressor.
And the second is complementarity, when it gets to be what she would like to see the aggressor, i.e., in the full sense of the victim – helpless, "loving", i.e., it becomes its complement (the complement of its internal another).
a well-Known example "Stockholm syndrome" when the victim starts to defend his persecutor the same case.
the identification Process is associated with the mechanisms of projection / introjection, for example, “victim” as she can feel guilty and to feel guilt or shame for the other.
Interestingly, often as protection is not integration of feelings and intreccia the image of an aggressor in order to transform the external “evil” in internally in the hope to thus control.
Survivors of a traumatic experience, especially having before our eyes and the aggressor and victim in the person of their parents (which does not necessarily correspond to reality, because the child does not see the benefits that have parents in such a relationship) and getting into the triangle of Karpman, the person in law and may choose the role of rescuer himself. Integrating “RESCUER” how to help and support the figure ADULT can stop playing the victim and rescuer in vnutripsihicheskoy space.
To do this you must disconnect the power source, ie, those emotions that connect man with the aggressor and to recognize the “benefits”, which he gets by being in the position of the victim.
In a sense, trauma – there is the experience of loss itself (I) associated with the error identification.
But she, “perejivaesh” and omakayas becomes dear to the true self.
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