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Moreover, there are a number of people who are not able to even sustain a lasting marriage, nor produce and nurture a pair of twins the way Seth, who has been plagued with disassociation all his life, has. Julia is able to continue through her mentally demanding job while disassociating for days at a time. Neither of these two examples of Stout's patients engages in behavior that is deemed an act of lunacy while disassociating, which proves that they are very much sane and have reasons for being unable to perceive reality the way they usually can during these periods. Additionally, we can attempt to stabilize the unreliability of our memories by choosing to confront those issues, however dark and scary they may be, that our minds choose to disassociate from in that respect there is no wishful thinking involved in the adage "Know Thyself," because with will, desire, and training/psychological help, it is possible for people to gain greater control over their minds and over their ability to access those crucial moments that played pivotal roles in shaping them into the way they are. If someone as severly traumatized as Julia can essay such an attempt to recover her memory, then people who have been less traumatized or even...
So long as the mind and the body are willing to try, then it lies within the realm of possibility for us to know ourselves regardless of the horrors we've endured.
The example of George and his experiences with Deborah and Caroline actually do sound pretty sane. It is completely rational and logical for George's consciousness to recall the rejection and the humiliation he endured when he asked Deborah out as he's considering propositioning Caroline for a date. It would be decidedly less sane to not recall and completely disregard the experience with Deborah, since it produced some degree of traumatic effect upon him. However, this example tells us that sanity is largely relevant and that it involves irrationality, as well.
Humans are not hostages of habit, although habit does affect our perceptions and actions in the present. but, if people are hostages of habits, sanity can be discussed as a fluctuating state due to its irregular recording and preservation of memories, which is alluded to in the following quote in which memories of trauma are described as "Such memory fragments are wordless, placeless and eternal…" (Stout, 383).
Tuesdays With Morrie Physically: How is Morrie eating? "He was eating mostly liquid supplements, with perhaps a bran muffin tossed in until it was mushy and easily digested." "He was taking food through a straw. I still shopped every week and walked in with bags to show him, but it was more for the look than anything else." "He had begun to cough while eating, and chewing was a chore." How is Morrie talking? "When you're in
This dissociative process was so powerful that Julia was able to endure what her physician referred to as agony, in a state in which she was blissfully unaware of the excruciating suffering she was feeling. The ramifications of this incident, of course, illustrate what Stout was stating about the consciousness' human ability to adapt and survive. Because Julia had endured so much suffering during her childhood by tuning out
sunny Tuesday morning when I suddenly woke up to the sunrays directly falling on my eyes and making me nervous. I reluctantly opened my eyes and saw the usual surrounding: a few books lying on the floor, a stack on the table leaning onto a flower vase, a cup half-filled with coffee I was drinking last night in the hope that it would keep me awake and a chocolate
What is key about both of these quotations is the loss of identity that is endemic to both of them. The cadets who have survived the fourth-class system and who inflict ritualistic violence in the form of hazing on others have lost something of their true "selves," something that was stripped away to lead them to believe that they could rightfully engage in this sort of behavior to inflict
"In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a true war story nothing is ever absolutely true. Often in a true war story there is not even a point, or else the point doesn't hit you until at least 20 years later, in your sleep, and you wake up and shake your wife and
Derivative Securities Derivatives (Black Tuesday) Derivative Securities Derivative Securities It is difficult to understand or explain why throughout history some negative investor philosophies continually repeat themselves. Far too often investors miss blatant signs that lead to major collapses in the free markets. The purpose of this report is to discuss derivative securities in detail and how they affect those investor philosophies. Even unsophisticated investors understand that the stock and commodities markets are supposed to fluctuate