Silvio Ariete in the American Handbook of Psychiatry 1958:
p. 111: "The Self":
The concept of the self was abandoned (as well as the soul and
other synonymous terms) by early experimental psychologists during
the early decades of scientific psychology because of its
association with theology and philosophy and because of its unamenability to experimental studies. It was left to philosophers
and to European - and some other - psychologists who made no sharp
break with philosophy. The prominent place of the "self" in the
United States psychology today is a testimony to the emergence of
the psychology of personality as a field of scientific endeavor.
Some theoretists use the term "ego" as others use the term "self",
some use both terms in a manner directly opposite to their use by
others. Those concepts under consideration refer in all cases to
central, integrating structures and functions of the personality,
and the problem is to define it so that it will perform that service
without the reification of a more or less integrated group of
functions - that is, without positioning (whether explicitly or not)
a homunculus, and without making it impossible to explain
sentimental and part functions and, particularly,
molar conflicts
and multiple personalities.
This is in fact
a
declaration of war against
OPTION II beginning
with denying any existence of a self, its
substance and its created principle of lifefulfillment! This
denial is the
role model among others for anti-Semitism;
sacrificing und substituting
the created life
for mass-attractivity
as the measure of all things; subtly
propagated by philosophy since
Antiquity as the exclusive OPTION I. This is the
mother of all thinking
catastrophe which evoke all the
known human catastrophes which above all, psychiatry
pretends to heal with its spin of what
"human" is supposed to be, and
on the other side what in
this limelight is not
normal, not socially compatible, not
%1-politically correct, the be eliminated. This culminated
with the Nazi psychiatry by preparing the prototype for
the holocaust with some 70'000 murders of "unworthy" lives with
efficient procedures to cover it up. In 1941 Hitler ordered its
swift scaling up a hundred times, to speed up scapegoating
to preserve the ongoing
atrocities und his OPTION I at all costs:
p. 94 ff: Hall and Lindzey hold that
theories of
Personality can, and should, constantly strive to conform to the
positivistic logic and rigorous experimental methods developed by the physical and
biological sciences. Such theories are
a set of Conventions (terms, concepts, definitions),
a
Creative, imaginative organization by the theorist of his
observations. It is an artistic, arbitrary product. It is not and
can never become either true or false, though its
implications may be either. A theory is, rather, useful or not
useful - useful if it can generate predictions or propositions
regarding relevant events which turn out to be verified (true).
Ideally, a theory is a Cluster of as of assumptions
systematically
related to each other and to a set of empirical definitions.
This kind of a cluster aims for the global
OPTION I MATRIX that determines human behavior
pretending our inner life has no
structure and with it, an OPTION II! The
aim is a template for re-engineering
real human beings to the "highest state" of a mere
mammal-like, command-control-communicate
mind-body machine that can be commanded to
sustain and maintain OPTION I at all cost against the
meaning of the life of real human beings; as a
Creatures of the Creator in HIS Creation!
Turning from the structure to the function of a theory, the two authors
Hall
and
Lindzey
indicate three things
their OPTION I theory should do:
First, it leads to the
collection or Observation of relevant
empirical relations not yet observed. The core of any science lies
in the discovery of stable empirical relations between events and
variables. The function of a theory is to further this in a
systematic manner; it is a proposition mill. Only those derivations
or propositions or ideas derived from the theory are open to
empirical test. The theory is assumed, and its viability is
determined by its utility, not by its
truth or falsity. Utility, in
this connection, means the verifiability of the propositions derived
from it, and its comprehensiveness, scope, or completeness. A theory
may be verifiable but insignificant. Ideally, it should make
predictions of inclusive scope. Some theories, which do not observe
the principle of constructing
empirical definitions and therefore cannot generate research
systematically, nevertheless have a heuristic value due to other
characteristics, and produce much research. The theories of Darwin
and Freud illustrate this.
The envisaged wishful structure is one
is one of maintaining OPTION I as formally closed upon itself,
inhibiting any OPTION II and is thus
permanently self-destructive as philosophic
mimics the evil spirit of the time...
A second function of a theory is to incorporate
known empirical
findings in a logically consistent and relatively simple framework.
It means organizing and integrating all that is known
regarding a related set of events. (Because theories are guided in
their inception by what is known, they are in that sense inductive.)
But this organizing of the known is a minor function of theories;
their major function is to point out new and unobserved relations.
In the end, under OPTION I,
what is not within its theories is meant not to exist,
beginning with the "self", "God" merely
as a "strong literary figure" as is
meanwhile the consensus among many so
called Christian Ministers and Priests which have thus fallen
for Anti-Christ to the truth of death as propagated by the
Islam, having in essence given up the truth
which on one's path leads to life's fulfillment - that
which Jesus proclaimed...
The third function of a theory is to prevent the observer being
dazzled by the full-blown complexity of natural or concrete events.
It is a set of blinders
directing his gaze so that he can abstract
what is pertinent to his purpose, on the basis of explicit
assumptions. A useful theory will give rather
explicit instructions as to the kind of data to be collected. This is why a given
empirical event may be studied from many different theoretical positions with diverse results.
This has opened Pandora's box to todays's
post-normality with its post-factual and
post-ethical, alternative truth
thus converging to the truth of death in the
evil spirit of the time!
Applied to personality theory, it means that "a theory of personality must be a set of assumptions
relevant to human behavior
together with the necessary empirical definitions!" ''it must be
relatively comprehensive . . . should be prepared
to deal with any
behavioral phenomenon which can be shown to possess
significance
for the individual."
This stems from the dogma of the "Holy"
Catholic Church in which its tradition
is declared of equal significance as the
essence of the Bible, which among others has allowed the
Inquisition, genocides and all the other atrocities of the power
politics of the Vatican and its
embellishing spin [film - watch the Cardinal's final speech
2:43:00]...
Viewing the conception not just of psychiatry of what
personality theory should be like: It is clear, nevertheless, that at the present time
they do
not look like Hall and Lindzey projected and worse than that,
with it at least open to criticize its underlying
OPTION I rationally, they are mainly concerned about elimination
any OPTION II - just as Hitler just
instrumentalized World War II to scapegoat the Jews out of
existence! Existing theories, Hall and Lindzey say, lack explicitness,
their assumptions are hard to get at, they are confused regarding
what is assumed and what is stated empirically as open to test; that
is, the distinction between the theory and its implications or
derivations is poorly maintained. Since in the light of their
scientific ideal the theories are so seriously lacking, would it not
be better, the authors ask, to give up the effort for the present
and focus on empirical tools and specific findings? Their answer is,
"Not at all!" For since (without the substance
of "selves") nothing
can be done without theory (implicit if not explicit),
the abandonment of theory is to give oneself up
to implicit or unconscious theory, which is not to know very clearly
what one is doing (this is also referring to their
abandoned self, and lack of a
corresponding truth). But, say the authors, poor as they are,
the
available theories of personality are far from useless: They
direct investigation, they provide specific dimensions
which are
considered important in studying the problems they are addressed to,
and their heuristic value is great, since it has led to
large
quantities of research and a healthy flourishing of investigation;
in short today's fake news spread by Spin
Doctors, in psychiatry propagating lucrative nerve-poisonous
cocktails...
