What other people observe about him the person calls his ‘false self ’. The inner self does not participate in the actions and behaviour of the false self, and so such actions and behaviour are felt to be false and futile.
In order to describe the rationale of schizophrenia, I take this way of characterising a person and add my understanding of the dynamics of the subconscious mind, particularly the manner in which anxiety is handled.
For such a person, anxiety arises from social relationships, and the purpose of the false self is to prevent this anxiety reaching the inner self. The false self is a barrier that is created to protect the person against the problems of relating to other people. However, this strategy slowly fails because the false self only prevents the transmission of some anxiety, not all of it, to the inner self. The response is to reject more and more of the inner self as it becomes contaminated with anxiety, and associate it with the false self. So slowly the false self becomes bigger as the inner self shrinks to a phantom. The person has lost himself in schizophrenia.
When schizophrenia is not so intense, the person erects the false self as a means of playing roles (the person is now usually labelled ‘schizoid’, rather than ‘schizophrenic’). This way he can function smoothly in society without developing or intensifying anxiety (hopefully)."
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"Express your opinion on these statements, ladies ant gents:
1. Narcissism is the emotional basis for the problem of schizophrenia. What exactly the nature of this form of mental disorder is, is the subject of dispute.
2. Psychiatric diagnostics are unable to differentiate between all these separate disorders. <...> And the other main reason is that the major disorders function within dynamic patterns of mind. This means that one disorder can lead to another one. So within mental disorder it is possible for the person to experience different forms of madness at different times, and even to switch between binary, or complementary, psychotic states in a short period of time, say in a day. This labile nature produces the headache of classification.
3. Schizophrenia is maintained by an unskilful dialogue between narcissism and jealousy. I classify the disorder under narcissism since the defences that the person erects to protect himself are created within his narcissistic bias."
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