#Heinz approves

[firespirited]

Quick primer on the business side of the Barbie movie as part of Mattel films. Specifically that it's not so much a toy commercial but a brand opportunity.

Not that the film itself is wrong or bad - no doubt real creative love was poured into all the aspects of creating it - however once it got Mattel approved and blitz marketed, it's different. Even a wonderful piece of art can have its meaning changed. What you experience in the cinema and your personal relationship to your childhood toys is a separate phenomenon from Barbie and Toy Story being turned into merch and theme parks, and more importantly, trust in the Mattel or Pixar brands.

What he doesn't mention is the Mattel films have been in production (and getting investor hype) since 2013. The reason there are bits of the He Man ad is because Master of the Universe was due to be the next Mattel film to be released.

So it's important to remember that reviews of the Barbie movie and articles about it will not specify which aspect they're commenting on. We will have to sift through what has been deliberately blurred marketing and art: for many of us, watching the film will have been a 'multiple lens' viewing: it's aware it's both personal, a message about a type of womanhood, a story and a product. Many picked up on queer/ND subtext which is another lens. The racial lens was there and also not there which was another thing people picked up on.

And then there's the capitalist lenses: some people are just seeing the doll characters and tie-in doll toys/merch and saying that's a commercial; that's legit but also applies to Star Wars and Top Gun while also just scratching the surface of something much bigger.

Videos like the one above are not about whether you enjoyed the Barbie movie or whether it was good, it's about larger patterns of brand monopolies: No-one is here to tell you that the birthday cake you made is bad, just that it's disturbing that all the ingredients available to you were owned by Nestlé and Kraft-Heinz.

So the folks saying I hate the birthday cake and I loved the birthday cake can be both right so long as we figure out the lens they're using (or utterly wrong in the case of the 'ew girly' idiots and hardcore Barbie stans LOL). I will be reblogging* both love and vitriol because there are layers to the film, to the hobby and to people.

*I'm waiting for it to hit pirate streaming in decent quality for all the folks who can't do 2 hours of bright lights, loud noises, crowded room.

#barbie movie #except it's not really about the barbie movie #saf #video essays #video #barbie #Youtube

[parageist]

Hiiiiiii I nuked a image of Heinz beans earlier while sewing a slugcat

Do you approve?

YEAHHHH those are some deep fried beans if i’ve ever seen any!!! also ooooo are you making a slugcat plushie???

[gusty-wind]

For the last 50 years, the United States military has enjoyed air superiority over essentially every other nation on the planet. In addition to good-ol’ American ingenuity and freedom to create, this superiority was created and is maintained by the government’s support of ongoing research and development to maintain that superiority. The research and development process for new fighter jets can take decades, as with the F-22 Raptor and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). China has always lagged significantly behind the United States in this department, but they’ve recently made major strides.

A significant factor in China’s progress comes as a result of the 2015 acquisition of Henniges Automotive, a Michigan company whose anti-vibration (stealth) technology is used on the F-35 (stealth) fighter, by Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC), the state-owned entity that produces fighter jets for the Chinese military.

Guess whose company partnered with AVIC in that acquisition? That’s right -- Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, and Chris Heinz’s BHR.

As a refresher: BHR is a Chinese venture capital firm in which Rosemont Seneca Thornton (the Biden/Heinz/Archer/Bulger partnership) owned a 30 percent stake, and which is majority-owned and controlled by the state-owned Bank of China. (Hunter Biden still owns 10 percent through his Skaneateles, LLC entity.)

For the 2015 transaction a wholly-owned subsidiary of AVIC, AVIC Auto, partnered with BHR to acquire Henniges, with AVIC Auto owning 51 percent and BHR owning 49 percent -- meaning that the Chinese government-owned military manufacturer ended up with a controlling interest in Henniges.

The Chinese government and military have attempted for decades to catch up to the aforementioned US military superiority, by any means necessary. At the time of the sale, U.S. government officials -- and the public, through Edward Snowden – were aware that China had hacked “terabytes” of data, including F-35 technology, and made use of it in their J-20 fighter. By acquiring Henniges and their anti-vibration technology, AVIC could put that technology directly to use in the Chinese military jets.

In a press release announcing the deal Daen Lu, described as chairman of Henniges Automotive, said (emphasis added):

“This acquisition represents a long-term, strategic investment by AVIC Auto to sustain and grow the Henniges business, while keeping the successful leadership, culture, benefits and contracts associated with the company intact. We are excited about this acquisition, and look forward to the addition of their significant expertise and the benefits it will bring to both of our companies.”

Yes, we’re sure AVIC looked forward to the significant expertise Henniges brought to the table. And who is Daen Lu? A Bloomberg profile describes him as both the Chairman of the Board of Henniges Automotive and as Chairman of AVIC Capital Co., LTD. So, was he on the board of Henniges before the acquisition, or was he inserted by AVIC?

BHR’s press release shares similar sentiments. In a March 2016 interview, BHR CEO Jonathan Li characterized the Henniges transaction as BHR’s “typical business model”:

Henniges [an automotive equipment manufacturer acquired last year] is our typical business model. We set up a joint venture with AVIC -- they own 51% and we own 49% – and did the acquisition together. AVIC has industry experience, operations in China, and it knew Henniges well. As a financial investor, we use our international network and our professionalism. While the AVIC is very experienced in international acquisitions, some Chinese companies don’t have the same cross-border experience and so may appreciate what we can offer in this domain.

Xin Wang, a US-educated Canadian attorney who serves as BHR’s Managing Partner, said that by BHR serving as a conduit for the SOE they “can facilitate the transaction.”

Just by virtue of being an SOE there is the perception -- rightly or wrongly – that there will be some cross-cultural issues. Having us and our global resources there as a financial investor, and serving as a conduit, can facilitate the transaction.

A look at the research and development timelines of the F-35 and the J-31 illustrates the advantage that both hacking and the strategic acquisition of Henniges have given the Chinese.

#BIDENS CORRUPTIONS

[septembersghost]

Do you know about the time Taylor approved an officially Disney-sanctioned music video of my otp? "The I Knew You Were Trouble Music Video Mashup is a music video that debuted on May 24, 2013 on Disney Channel to the self-named popstep song by Taylor Swift. It features video clips of Heinz Doofenshmirtz "singing" the song to Perry while illustrating the lyrics." https://www.youtube(.)com/watch?v=DtdyrDc_598

I DID NOT and it's incredible lol (the clips they chose match so well?!), i love adding things to my mental taylore folder!

#this also strikes me as totally fitting her sense of humor. zany and fun #joons #letterbox #thrown out speeches

[catmanbowser]

this heinz mango sambal bs is shit. Like it taste like a fucking ketchup and thats it. Where's the sourness? Where's the SPICYNESS, THERE'S NOT EVEN A HINT OF MANGO? its a MANGO sambal you fucking loser, who approved this shit.

#WEAK. i do not recommend this bullshit of a sauce. #there are local products that are better than this ketchup mess. fuck you. #'your dad was obsessed with it' LIAR. THIS SHIT IS STILL FULL AND I NEVER ONCE SAW ANYYY OF YOU TOUCHED THIS THING #im a hater of this. forwver and ever. #cy barks

[germanpostwarmodern]

One if not the most remarkable school building is located in Düsseldorf’s Golzheim district: Paul Schneider-Esleben’s Rolandschule, an elementary school built between 1959 and 1961 that closely resembles Mies van der Rohe’s IIT campus buildings. But it isn’t the architecture alone that makes the school stand out but also the progressive art in architecture it contains. Schneider-Esleben, very familiar with contemporary art and a frequent visitor of art events in Düsseldorf, commissioned the ZERO artists Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günter Uecker as well as the young Joseph Beuys to develop artworks for the school. Knowing that the reactionary Düsseldorf authorities wouldn’t approve of these the architect kept the expenses related to the artworks hidden by declaring them building material. Unfortunately shortly after the opening an accident occurred that brought the authorities to the scene who didn’t approve of the artworks primarily for safety reasons but surely also because of their modern formal language and the fact that they required the children to actively use and interact with them. Beyond that Schneider-Esleben had his employee Wolfgang Döring buy a number of graphics by contemporary artists.

In her dissertation Ina Scheffler examined the unique interplay of art and architecture at the Rolandschule, recounts its genesis and explains why fundamentally differs from numerous paradigms in postwar school architecture: „Polarisierung und Neubeginn - ZERO-Kunst in einem Grundschulbau als Zeichen der Zeitenwende der Nachkriegszeit“, published in 2020 by Athena Verlag, contextualizes architecture and art of the school within postwar Germany and demonstrates that through the abstract nature of the art a completely different approach is being followed. Instead of the commonly used figurative sculptures and sgraffiti architect and artists introduced abstract, interactive but no less stimulating artworks to the children, an empowering move away from the usual patronization.

Ina Scheffler’s book is a highly readable and thorough examination of this lesser-known but truly revolutionary building. Highly recommended!

#paul schneider-esleben #school architecture #art in architecture #architecture book #art history #nachkriegsarchitektur #nachkriegsmoderne #book

[transgenderer]

The Discovery of the first antipsychotic, Chlorpromazine, AKA Thorazine

In 1933, the French pharmaceutical company Laboratoires Rhône-Poulenc began to search for new anti-histamines. In 1947, it synthesized promethazine, a phenothiazine derivative, which was found to have more pronounced sedative and antihistaminic effects than earlier drugs.[50]: 77  A year later, the French surgeon Pierre Huguenard used promethazine together with pethidine as part of a cocktail to induce relaxation and indifference in surgical patients. Another surgeon, Henri Laborit, believed the compound stabilized the central nervous system by causing "artificial hibernation", and described this state as "sedation without narcosis". He suggested to Rhône-Poulenc that they develop a compound with better stabilizing properties.[51] In December 1950, the chemist Paul Charpentier produced a series of compounds that included RP4560 or chlorpromazine.[6]

Chlorpromazine was distributed for testing to physicians between April and August 1951. Laborit trialled the medicine on at the Val-de-Grâce military hospital in Paris, using it as an anaesthetic booster in intravenous doses of 50 to 100 mg on surgery patients and confirming it as the best drug to date in calming and reducing shock, with patients reporting improved well being afterwards. He also noted its hypothermic effect and suggested it may induce artificial hibernation. Laborit thought this would allow the body to better tolerate major surgery by reducing shock, a novel idea at the time. Known colloquially as "Laborit's drug", chlorpromazine was released onto the market in 1953 by Rhône-Poulenc and given the trade name Largactil, derived from large "broad" and acti* "activity".[6]

Following on, Laborit considered whether chlorpromazine may have a role in managing patients with severe burns, Raynaud's phenomenon, or psychiatric disorders. At the Villejuif Mental Hospital in November 1951, he and Montassut administered an intravenous dose to psychiatrist Cornelia Quarti who was acting as a volunteer. Quarti noted the indifference, but fainted upon getting up to go to the toilet, and so further testing was discontinued (orthostatic hypotension is a known side effect of chlorpromazine). Despite this, Laborit continued to push for testing in psychiatric patients during early 1952. Psychiatrists were reluctant initially, but on 19 January 1952, it was administered (alongside pethidine, pentothal and ECT) to Jacques Lh. a 24-year-old manic patient, who responded dramatically, and was discharged after three weeks having received 855 mg of the drug in total.[6]

Pierre Deniker had heard about Laborit's work from his brother-in-law, who was a surgeon, and ordered chlorpromazine for a clinical trial at the Sainte-Anne Hospital Center in Paris where he was Men's Service Chief.[6] Together with the Director of the hospital, Jean Delay, they published their first clinical trial in 1952, in which they treated 38 psychotic patients with daily injections of chlorpromazine without the use of other sedating agents.[52] The response was dramatic; treatment with chlorpromazine went beyond simple sedation with patients showing improvements in thinking and emotional behaviour.[53] They also found that doses higher than those used by Laborit were required, giving patients 75–100 mg daily.[6]

Deniker then visited America, where the publication of their work alerted the American psychiatric community that the new treatment might represent a real breakthrough. Heinz Lehmann of the Verdun Protestant Hospital in Montreal trialled it in 70 patients and also noted its striking effects, with patients' symptoms resolving after many years of unrelenting psychosis.[54] By 1954, chlorpromazine was being used in the United States to treat schizophrenia, mania, psychomotor excitement, and other psychotic disorders.[14][55][56] Rhône-Poulenc licensed chlorpromazine to Smith Kline & French (today's GlaxoSmithKline) in 1953. In 1955 it was approved in the United States for the treatment of emesis (vomiting). The effect of this drug in emptying psychiatric hospitals has been compared to that of penicillin and infectious diseases.[52] But the popularity of the drug fell from the late 1960s as newer drugs came on the scene. From chlorpromazine a number of other similar antipsychotics were developed. It also led to the discovery of antidepressants.[57]

[the-october-country]

Matt over at Dinosaur Dracula is at it again, with a daily discontinued spooky food item from the archives.

Heinz Haunted House is in the number one spot, so naturally I approve, for it is the greatest food ever wrought by men or gods. I lost it at his theory as to what possessed the people who turned Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde into a double-sided ice lolly! (And whether you're from the USA or the UK, you will now be cursing the heavens because one or the other of those spooky foods is forever denied to you.)

#spooky food #dinosaur dracula #halloween #vintage halloween #halloween food #articles

[nuovi-materiali]

Oltre 140 anni con Pinocchio

Nel 1881, in Toscana, veniva al mondo Pinocchio. Avrebbe dovuto avere una vita breve. Infatti, quando Carlo Lorenzini, poi Collodi, cominciò a scrivere “Le avventure di Pinocchio”, a puntate, sul Giornale per i bambini, l’intenzione era di lasciarlo appeso alla Quercia grande, come estrema punizione per tutte le birbonate compiute. E se non fosse stato per le richieste dei tanti fanciulli, che non si rassegnavano a veder morire il loro burattino preferito, Pinocchio sarebbe ancora lì a spenzolare, mosso dal vento e crucciato per il mancato soccorso della Bambina dai capelli turchini.

Carlo Collodi però volle dare ascolto alle proteste dei suoi piccoli lettori e riprese a raccontare mille altre peripezie fino alla trasformazione finale del burattino Pinocchio in un bambino in carne e ossa. Ed è così che finisce il libro, che comparve per la prima volta in volume nel 1883 per la casa editrice fiorentina Paggi.

Come ricorda Mario Vargas Llosa, «il libro fu scritto per lettori in calzoni corti, e senza dubbio sono i bambini quelli che si divertono di più leggendolo. Le avventure di Pinocchio commuovono, però, anche gli adulti e gli anziani, che tornano a quella prima età in cui il mondo della realtà e quello del sogno si confondono: un mondo in cui si può ancora credere alle fate e alle magie, un mondo al quale è impossibile rinunciare, nonostante il passare degli anni, perché, come Pinocchio, gli esseri umani sono condannati a desiderare sempre quello che non hanno e quello che non sono. Da quel sogno nasce questo burattino snodato che, per ciò stesso, è un simbolo della nostra condizione».

La Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi rende disponibili il testo ufficiale in italiano de Le avventure di Pinocchio tratto dall’Edizione Critica (Fondazione Collodi, 1983) e le traduzioni contemporanee in lingue streniere approvate dalla Fondazione: inglese (trad. P.M.D. Pantom), francese (trad. Danielle Revol) e tedesco (trad. Heinz Georg Held).

I tasti sono scaricabili dal sito e possono essere utilizzati solo per scopi personali ed educativi.

Per il loro utilizzo commerciale ed editoriale è necessario richiedere il consenso alla Fondazione Collodi che detiene ogni diritto d’autore sui testi.

ITALIANO - Le Avventure di Pinocchio

ENGLISH - Adventures of Pinocchio

FRANCAIS - Les Aventures de Pinocchio

DEUTSCH - Pinocchios_Abenteuer

Su Pinocchio si è detto e scritto tantissimo. Tradotto in oltre ottanta lingue e dialetti, trasposto in film, sceneggiati, musical e cartoni animati, disegnato da grandi maestri dell'illustrazione. Oggetto di riflessione e di, spesso incompatibili, ricerche antropologiche, pedagogiche, filosofiche, teologiche, politiche, …

Sul mio sito trovate un po’ di materiali su Pinocchio

#pinocchio #carlo collodi

[voidintheforce]

The Bottomless Pit - Interlude

“García Escudero, is it?”

“Señor. Thank you for coming all the way from Germany. The way international flights are fucked these past weeks - how’d you manage?” The Mexican fisherman’s figure fidgeted nervously in the dim light.

“I have my ways. So, the asset you mentioned?”

“Aah-ah. Here, señor. Joder, it’s a brave new world. These waters are dead ever since that bomb dropped-” The man murmured as he led the small, cloaked company deeper and deeper into the bowels of a warehouse. Through the last door... and here it is. Golden scales dulled by untold days of decay, red eyes hazy and unseeing but still retaining some semblance of that evil glimmer.

The man extended a gloved hand, and placed it right on the snout of a dead Devil.

“Señor? Are you taking...”

“I sense... a pulse. Something yet lingers... Fascinating. Just as we theorized, head is the seat of the soul. The dominant one, no less.”

“Ehm. We don’t ask for much, but for the trouble both Monarch and the Government will give us...” The man hesitantly purposed, but the latter part of his sentence was drown in a pained gurgle. He floated a feet above the ground, eyes bulging in fear as an invisible iron grip seized his neck, and clamped down. This is a crime Victivus did not enjoy committing, but a loose end is a loose end.

“Your part of the deal exceeds all expectations, my friend. You have met your unfortunate demise when your ship sunk in the storm near Isla de Mara. Your family will be provided shelter and relocated to Monarch-approved inland safezone. Your name will be written in glory after we remake this world.”

...

“Kuso. Who the hell are you again?” Ren Serizawa had been drowning himself in a Tokyo bar when the man approached. “I have many names. Director Heinz Schmitt of Monarch Germany branch, Walter Simmons of Apex Cybernatics, Lord Victivus... whatever that title serves nowadays. Which one do you prefer?” Victivus calmly dodged a glass cup thrown his way by the young man; it caught itself mid-air, before settling on the table once more.

“I’m not some conjurer of cheap tricks, you see.” Victivus put a hand on the younger man’s shoulder as Ren’s face blushed a furious red, the alcohol taking its toll but still not hiding his surprise.

“But what the heck can you do? We are bugs, insignificant bugs compared to them! We either fucking revere them as deities like my old man, or be destroyed... They are GODS. What are we in front of gods?”

Ren’s frame was wrecked by another sob he thought he hid well. Victivus knew, despite all their differences, Ren loved his father dearly. He sought to live up to Ishiro, yet the old man’s entire life have been consumed by his one fascination... Godzilla.

“And what are gods... in front of non-believers?” Victivus whispered as Ren lifted his face, brows contorted in sorrow. “Your father was a martyr, and a good man. That his action ultimately saved humanity is worth my sincerest salutation. Alas, he was misguided no less.” Ren slammed his fist on the table, wine spilling out from the impact. The young man will snap out of it, that Victivus was certain. He was a Serizawa. And the Serizawas have always been determined and sturdy souls.

When Ren found himself painfully somber the next day, a message was on his encrypted cellphone. How’d anyone bypass his firewalls? Frowning, he opened the message. “Kazakhstan, Aral Sea, Rebirth Island. Specimen Zero, Project Raijin. Put your talent to good use. D.V.”

I saw an angel coming down from heaven. He had the key to the bottomless pit and a large chain in his hand. The angel seized the dragon, that old snake who is the devil and Satan, and tied him up for a thousand years...

[Source: twitter @MrgSenor]

#Playing God: Ren Serizawa #Darkness Ascends: Victivus(monsterverse) #Stories Yet Untold(Drabbles) #godzilla rp #mecha ghidorah #ideas sprung from rp! shout out to @thekingofmcnsters #monsterverse #godzilla king of the monsters

[altustechnotrends]

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#Canned Fruits Market

[psychreviews2]

Object Relations: Fear Of Success Pt. 3

The Obstacle of Self-Hatred

It is fortunate when people learn about mimetic rivalry and are able to adjust their lives accordingly, but there are many who will not learn this and bound into every conflict, and these conflicts can start early in childhood and pathology can develop before they enter the workforce. Everything is just an empty search for approval from others for the objects that are chosen. When people look at work as only a means to an end, motivation saps and it becomes robotic. One of the best psychoanalysts that understood this problem well was Heinz Kohut who was in the lineage of Ego Psychology. Ideally employers provide boundaries to work within, but many people have grown up in families where everything is motivated by parents, and eventually authority figures in the world of work. To not be able to create personal goals to fulfill means no fulfillment. One just looks for cues from authority figures, and like a slave, one's emotions are tied to the criticisms of others. Attention is an unreliable source of energy. "A rebuff, the absence of expected approval, the environment’s lack of interest in the patient, and the like, will soon again bring about the former state of depletion." Heinz saw that prior methods of psychoanalysis did demonstrate incremental improvements in patients, but he noticed that some people improved better than others. Some improvements were short-lived and self-direction would disintegrate after a period of time. Narcissistic Woundings are those criticisms that keep us away from a self-appreciation that matches an ideal-self. That pain can lead to avoidances, aggressive reactivity found in Narcissistic Rage, and addictions. "The fantasies stood, of course, in opposition to meaningful insight and progress since they were in the service of pleasure gain and provided an escape route from narcissistic tensions." The problem of course is that reality doesn't always conform to our views of ourselves.

Due to our parenting, which may have included too much restriction, or abuse, and too much indulgence, which keeps one from important reality checks, one can be more or less connected with reality depending on how much of a need there is for repeated confirmations from others. "Many of the most severe and chronic work disturbances of our patients are in my experience due to the fact that the self is poorly [attached] with narcissistic [craving] and in chronic danger of fragmentation, with a secondary reduction of the efficacy of the ego. Such people are either chronically unable to work at all, or (since their self is not participating) they are able to work only in an automatic way (as the isolated activity of an autonomous ego, without the participation of a self in depth), i.e., passively, without pleasure and without initiative, simply responding to external cues and demands. Occasionally even the patient’s awareness of this rather frequent type of work disturbance in narcissistic personality disorders comes about only in the course of a successful analysis. The patient will one day report that his work has changed, that he is now enjoying it, that he now has the choice whether to work or not, that the work is now undertaken on his own initiative rather than as if by a passively obedient automaton, and, last but not least, that his approach has now some originality rather than being humdrum and routine."

Part of developing a sense of self is to create one's own goals, go into Flow states, and learn that one can create one's own pleasure, much like in play. Yet play is not possible if there isn't any feedback from the real world. Certainly a sports game is not going to be very much fun if one can't tell if one is winning or not. Fantasizing that one is winning, when one clearly isn't, is also not very much fun. For Kohut, the therapeutic environment is one that recreates the early childhood experience "in which the child attempts to save the originally all-embracing narcissism by concentrating perfection and power upon the self—here called the grandiose self—and by turning away disdainfully from an outside to which all imperfections have been assigned." In that environment, everything is laid out neatly. In the real world, this manifests as a denial of realistic facts, avoidance of responsibility, and eventually a hostile aggression against any reality that may interfere with uninterrupted fantasy. This plays out in office politics with callousness, sabotage, and unethical short-cuts that are detrimental to organizations. It happens when there is an unconscious expanding of the Super-ego to take over boundaries of others and it relies on bridging weaknesses in skills with those surrounding the individual.

Narcissistic Supply - Freud and Beyond: https://rumble.com/v1gveop-narcissistic-supply-freud-and-beyond-wnaad.html

There is an importance in having that sense of omnipotence and all consuming passion, but it is mainly in the world of the infant. As development ideally improves, there's a sense of autonomous control over choices in activities to conform to socially accepted rules. Boundaries between self and others develop, which helps to develop empathy. Daydreaming and manipulating others like toys to satisfy goals, as an extension of ownership and self-hood, leads to conflict with others as they fight to maintain their independence, but in healthy narcissism it allows for those boundaries, hobbies, interests, and an acceptance of realistic limitations and imperfections in others. When one doesn't develop those passions and interests, and has no boundaries, then that parenting is echoed into the narcissist's adult life, and colored by past imitation of parents and authority figures. "The specific goals and purposes which frequently determine the later major directions of one’s life are often derived from identifications with the very figures who originally had been experienced as extensions of the grandiose self."

In therapy, one doesn't eliminate all narcissism, but tries to aim it in better directions and partially complete the parenting that one didn't receive. One can entertain fantasies, but also progressively tolerate how out of bounds it is from reality, or accept the amount of work and effort required to achieve those goals. Self-esteem based on a fantasy is turbulent, but self-esteem based on reality is stable. Smothering and spoiling remove one from reality, and excessive inhibition through abuse also disconnects one from the self-assertion needed to be able to self-satisfy and function in reality. One is confronted with reality and the pathological responses are avoidance, aggression, and denial. "Our ultimate goals and purposes and our self-esteem, also carry the earmark of the original narcissism which infuses into the central purposes of our life and into our healthy self-esteem that absoluteness of persistence and of conviction of the right to success which betrays that an unaltered piece of the old, limitless narcissism functions actively alongside with the new, tamed, and realistic structures. If the optimal development and integration of the grandiose self is interfered with, however, then this psychic structure may become split off from the reality ego and/or may become separated from it by repression. It is then no longer accessible to external influence but is retained in its archaic form."

As one in therapy is able to tolerate reality, including bouts of shame, realization of the unreality of fantastical goals, and the requirements of skill development to achieve any realistic goal, a patient who isn't severely narcissistic to the point of a permanent disorder, can learn to thaw out defenses and develop a more human self-esteem. "The gradual recognition of the realistic imperfections and limitations of the self, i.e., the gradual diminution of the domain and power of the grandiose fantasy, is in general a precondition for mental health in the narcissistic sector of the personality. But there are exceptions to this rule. A persistently active grandiose self with its delusional claims may severely incapacitate an ego of average endowment. A gifted person’s ego, however, may well be pushed to the use of its utmost capacities, and thus to a realistically outstanding performance, by the demands of the grandiose fantasies of a persistent, poorly modified grandiose self." Magical thinking about skills that aren't there can be a boon in one sense in that it becomes next to impossible to deny the lack of skill when there's any attempt at making dreams reality. The therapy can move faster to knowing one's weaknesses with less reactivity and to adjust with a learning attitude placed in the responsibility of the Ego and it's interest in reality. Unfortunately, someone who is gifted may have enough justifications for their false self, because of their high skill level, that they may not get the therapy they need to improve their relationships. It's usually a narcissist who had a big failure, or multiple failures, that seeks therapy or is pushed into therapy by significant others.

The Ego and the Id - Sigmund Freud: https://rumble.com/v1gvdo1-the-ego-and-the-id-sigmund-freud.html

Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorder: https://rumble.com/v1gtj2d-treatment-of-narcissistic-personality-disorder-narcissism-part-4-of-4.html

Buried in the successful narcissist's problem of not being able to see the difference between a True Self that is self-satisfying and responding to the real world, and the False Self that is still too fantastical, is the value of reality. Reality can appear boring, frightening, essentially a threat. The patient who is recovering notices that "...his realism was paying off." Real skills are nothing to be ashamed of and have to now find self-satisfaction in the real world. For those with only undeveloped potentials, then skills have to be planned for. "Gradually, the nature of the [identification process] changes: they are not gross and indiscriminate anymore, but become selective—increasingly focusing on features and qualities which are indeed compatible with the analysand’s personality and enhance (up to now dormant) talents of the patient himself...Ultimately the patient, may discover with calm but deep and genuine pleasure that he has acquired solid nuclei of autonomous function and initiative...All of a sudden, as if the sun were unexpectedly breaking through the clouds, the analyst will witness, to his great pleasure, how a genuine sense of humor expressed by the patient testifies to the fact that the ego can now see in realistic proportions the greatness aspirations of the infantile grandiose self or the former demands for the unlimited perfection and power of the idealized parent imago, and that the ego can now contemplate these old configurations with the amusement that is an expression of its freedom."

Finding pleasure in realistic goals also means that the delay of gratification is shorter, which lightens narcissistic neuroses. "Unsolved intellectual and aesthetic problems, for example, create a narcissistic imbalance which in turn propels the individual toward a solution—be it now the completion of a crossword puzzle or the search for the perfect place for the new sofa in the living room. The solving of the intellectual or aesthetic problem, however, especially when the correct answer becomes apparent within a relatively short time span, always leads to a feeling of narcissistic pleasure, which is the emotional accompaniment of the suddenly restored narcissistic balance." Seeing imperfections in oneself makes it easier to see imperfections in others. Empathy may increase if there's a desire to avoid hypocrisy. Empathy connected with love and realistic relationship goals can also be informed by expectations of imperfection and a need for problem solving. Like with earlier episodes, Psychoanalysis wants people to be able to rely on themselves more and bring on an ever expanding Ego responsibility so that the Super-ego can take a backseat from micro-managing. "Creativeness, too, ranging from a new-found ability to perform a restricted range of tasks with zestful initiative to the emergence of brilliantly inventive artistic schemes or of penetrating scientific undertakings, may appear, seemingly spontaneously, in the course of many analyses of narcissistic personalities. Its appearance is again specifically related to the mobilization of formerly frozen narcissistic [attachments], in the area of both the grandiose self and the idealized parent Imago...If this objective is reached, the aggressions in the narcissistic sector of the personality will be employed in the service of the realistic ambitions and purposes of a securely established self and in the service of the cherished ideals and goals of a superego that has taken over the function of the archaic omnipotent object and has become independent from it."

Empathy also allows a person to go into the shoes of another and feel a bit like their experiences were also experienced by oneself. A healthier Super-ego that can autonomously sample experiences of others without needing a leader's perspective means it co-creates with the realistic Ego without needing others to bridge skill gaps and slavishly respond to demands. The enjoyment comes from the Super-ego seeing the Ego succeed based on personally chosen goals to modify the environment in some way, and then ideally to connect those aims with the world for a healthier connection with others. Maybe a person can enjoy more parts of their work or take on new hobbies that have the potential for long lasting interest. The difficulty for Kohut was making sure that these small improvements were of lasting value, not just a way of killing time only to be abandoned later. The self in this system involves looking at preferences and making changes to the environment to match those preferences in a self-satisfying way. Dangers with narcissistic patients could be that it was all done as an acting performance to get positive responses from the therapist. Making changes can't be for the sake of rebellion or dogma. The persistence of a hobby, interest, or vocation has to have a sense of that daydreaming "it would be nice if..." but then a belief in oneself that one is capable of making those changes, and then providing some inertia by just starting something. With concentration and action, the feedback signaling progress creates natural zest. There maybe distractions from other people in any activity, but like in sports, those distractions can be included in the self-chosen list of goals, that one will ignore distractions from others with concentration and keep plugging away.

How to motivate yourself - Freud and Beyond: https://rumble.com/v1gv3zl-how-to-motivate-yourself-freud-and-beyond.html

Reality also has a benefit because it provides experiences and knowledge from others on what values are currently entertained by the culture. A sifting and comparing process gives the Super-Ego an opportunity to compare parental and cultural values so that one has meaning in life. During that search one can easily see how others have already been undergoing this process and now there's an opportunity to catch up. Those priorities create a life for a person. "...The patient’s devotion to his values and ideals is not that of a fanatic but is accompanied by a sense of proportion which can be expressed through humor. The coexistence of idealism and humor demonstrates not only that the content and psychological locus of the narcissistic positions have changed but also that the narcissistic energies are now tamed and neutralized and that they are following an aim-inhibited course."

These developments for Kohut were viewed as optimal frustrations, where the delay of gratification is not unreasonable, and if better parenting was encountered, then children would have learned self-soothing sooner, with more positive mental talk, and layers of conditioning would have developed so that the adult would tolerate frustration and stick with problem solving. There would be more acceptance of imperfections in the body, such as looks, and imperfect skills. Looks can be amended to a certain extent but much of how people look has to be accepted because the body is partly out of our control. There should be a solidarity between self-esteem and taking care of oneself. A reduction of self-consciousness. Skills can be developed or goals changed to more appropriate ones. There's also no need to tolerate exploitative relationships where one is expected to simply react to demands from authority figures.

The sad reality is that many narcissistic types are not going to be cured and there's no cure on the horizon. Most will not go into therapy so the chances of recovering these pathological relationships is next to nothing. This means separating from bad relationships and being very skeptical of miraculous cures. When these types have an agenda, the devastation for those in their path is life changing. Kohut calls this Narcissistic Rage. "...That the narcissistically vulnerable individual responds to actual (or anticipated) narcissistic injury either with shamefaced withdrawal (flight) or with narcissistic rage (fight)...Human aggression is most dangerous when it is attached to the two great absolutarian psychological constellations: the grandiose self and the archaic omnipotent object. And the most gruesome human destructiveness is encountered, not in the form of wild, regressive, and primitive behavior, but in the form of orderly and organized activities in which the perpetrators' destructiveness is alloyed with absolute conviction about their greatness and with their devotion to archaic omnipotent figures...The need for revenge, for righting a wrong, for undoing a hurt by whatever means, and a deeply anchored, unrelenting compulsion in the pursuit of all these aims, which gives no rest to those who have suffered a narcissistic injury-these are the characteristic features of narcissistic rage in all its forms and which set it apart from other kinds of aggression."

Kohut is similar with Freud in how sadism and revenge are connected. People see they can regain some power by using sadism to their advantage and then one can turn into the monster one was fighting before. "The desire to turn a passive experience into an active one, the mechanism of identification with the aggressor, the sadistic tensions retained by those who as children had been treated sadistically by their parents-all these factors help explain the readiness of the shame-prone individual to respond to a potentially shame-provoking situation by the employment of a simple remedy: the active (often anticipatory) inflicting on others of those narcissistic injuries which he is most afraid of suffering himself." This is partly the reason why people attack others unconsciously for things they are guilty of, to take the spotlight off of themselves, and to know from personal experience that if it potentially hurts oneself, then it will probably hurt others just as effectively. People with shame identities are not going to meditate and treat the self as a sensation and let identities transform from particles to waves and wait for those strong affects to wane on their own. They reinforce the complexes and go into defensiveness as per Freud and Jung.

Beyond the Pleasure Principle - Freud & Beyond - War Pt. (2/3): https://rumble.com/v1gv855-beyond-the-pleasure-principle-freud-and-beyond-war-pt.-23.html

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life - Sigmund Freud: https://rumble.com/v1gtj2d-treatment-of-narcissistic-personality-disorder-narcissism-part-4-of-4.html

That fear of being in a weak position can motivate the powerful to find ever inventive ways of using sadism and destruction to control the rest of society. "Mr. P., for example, who was exceedingly shame-prone and narcissistically vulnerable, was a master of a specific form of social sadism." Connecting with totalitarian movements of the 20th century, the danger of these types who are skilled at sadism is that their skills can inflict more damage than a general angry person who feels momentarily frustrated about something. "The irrationality of the vengeful attitude becomes even more frightening in view of the fact that—in narcissistic personalities as in the paranoiac—the reasoning capacity, while totally under the domination and in the service of the overriding emotion, is often not only intact but even sharpened. (This dangerous feature of individual psychopathology is the parallel of an equally malignant social phenomenon: the subordination of the rational class of technicians to a paranoid leader and the efficiency-and even brilliance-of their amoral cooperation in carrying out his purposes.)"

Otto Kernberg's research also ties these etiologies of pathology into political systems where there's "socialized dishonesty" as in the former Soviet Union, and paranoia has a quality that allows one to see more enemies than there actually are and it becomes easy to betray people with psychotic false narratives that support social dishonesty in the form of rationalizations and excuses. For Kernberg, Narcissists have a tilt in their psychology in his drive theory which leans out of control because the Super-ego conscience is not missing like in a theoretical pure psychopath, but it failed to integrate properly. Integration is learning from trial and error and then reacting appropriately to many different types of stimuli and impingements. A lack of integration becomes a problem because if left untreated those negative patterns can become rigid. Those individuals will have lifelong problems with relationships and be a path of wreckage for others. Imperfect policing functions in a society can also be coopted by these types and they can end up jailing and killing the healthy people in the population. No one wants painful treatment and certainly they don't want to go to jail, so why not make the rest of the world a jail and preempt incarceration by incarcerating everyone else? This is an ever present worry because so many Cluster B types are not getting treatment and are acquiring powerful positions in society as a way to use leverage to force people into exchanges with them. "Once a pathological grandiose self infiltrated by aggression dominates psychic functioning in the absence of the moderating and maturing reliance on an integrated super-ego—can later psychosocial influences and, in particular, psychotherapeutic treatment help?"

Many people feel anger and negative emotions but they have quite a bit of control on them, sometimes too much control, but for personality disorders that tilt and lean towards aggression as a solution, there is much more acting out. "...Aggressive affect—and affective dysregulation related to inadequate cognitive control, on one hand, and the development of the syndrome of identity diffusion, on the other." Identity diffusion is a "lack of integration of the concept of self and significant others, a predominance of primitive defensive operations centering around splitting, and loss of reality testing. The basic function of the defensive operations of splitting and its derivatives (projective identification, denial, primitive idealization, omnipotence, omnipotent control, devaluation) is to keep separate the idealized and persecutory internalized object relations in order to prevent the overwhelming control or destruction of ideal object relations by aggressively infiltrated ones and thus to protect the capacity to depend on good objects." Essentially, the pathology of these defenses in identity diffusion is to protect the self from legitimate criticism, deny reality, and to prevent the feeling of shame or humiliation. If splitting is the source defense mechanism, that certain things are all good or all bad, the projective identification is to suggest to others that they do what is embarrassing for them as well as for the narcissist, to smear others as all bad to make one look like one is all good, because the false accusation is treated as a regular person pointing out what's wrong. The general public doesn't see it's a defense. Denial has a hope that realistic consequences can be avoided by short-cuts and magical attitudes that consequences will just go away, or hopefully be forgotten. Idealization helps to move a narcissist closer to people who have the aura of success and to bask in their light. Omnipotence has a strange benefit in that it gets one motivated to work, but success without the appropriate skill can't be defended by denial forever. Reality will set in eventually. Omnipotent control can work in the sense that would-be dictators can continually push the envelope with others, that is until the general public fights back to maintain their independence. Devaluation is a way to underrate something so as to make oneself rated better, but again, one can be overrated. Splitting is to make oneself into an object and to purify it's reputation through these defenses because they are successful enough to fool people, but only in the short-term.

Identity diffusion helps to create these false narratives where the projections make predictions about people in persecutory and paranoid ways, and as stated before, projection is not just a prediction but there's a self-interest in it which can distort it's accuracy. "I want to make a prediction that makes me look better." There's also a lack of reality in these false narratives and there's no attempt to get back in touch with it. We have to remember that Objects in the mind, which are memories of people, not the actual people, have emotional investment for us. We want them to be useful for us. "Reality testing refers to the capacity to differentiate self from non-self and intrapsychic from external stimuli, and to maintain empathy with ordinary social criteria of reality, all of which capacities are typically lost in the psychoses and are manifested particularly in hallucinations and delusions. The loss of reality testing reflects the lack of differentiation between self-representations and object representations under conditions of peak affect states, that is, a structural persistence of the symbiotic states of development." Essentially there are strong impulses that motivate action and their strength after being triggered becomes difficult to control. In social relationships, these fears and threats lead to affect states that move into splitting, which is to look at people as not mixed with good and bad qualities but they are treated as all good or all bad. This connects with idealization when a person is seen as useful, resourceful, and a powerful ally, then turns into devaluation when a sense of threat or independence is demonstrated in the social environment. Control tactics are used until they don't work and victims are ejected so that predatory behavior can find new targets who are amenable to the narcissist's fantasies. This can be seen in cults where there's precisely no reality to their promises and members eat their own as they fight off feelings of shame, if they are the types that feel shame. A reconstruction of the cult based on false narratives goes back to the same old behavior because one always has to be cocooned from reality to preserve the ideal. The only choice is to start again with new members and maybe new fantasies to organize projects around. Healthy organizations accept the reality and learn from it. Learning from reality and truth is a method to reduce shame when the capacity is there.

Cult Psychology: https://rumble.com/v1gvih9-cult-psychology.html

There can be a pathological loneliness in these organizations and relationships where the narcissist really can't trust people because he or she doesn't recognize another person's independence, because that independence has a sense of truth and truth is threatening. The illusory fantasy has to be reconstructed to soothe the defensiveness. "The primitive defenses centering around splitting attempt to protect these patients from the chaos in all object relations that stems from their loss of ego boundaries in intense relationships with others." Control mechanisms are highly aggressive at the outset so they intrude to the level of being intolerable and that's when victimization, theft, and violence can manifest in society. "Hatred aims at the destruction of a source of frustration perceived as sadistically attacking the self; envy is a form of hatred of another who is perceived as sadistically or teasingly withholding something highly desirable."

That feeling of teasing and withholding sounds a lot like pathological parenting. "These aspects of inborn dispositions toward the activation of aggression mediated by the activation of aggressive affect states complement the now well-established findings that structured aggressive behavior in infants may derive from early, severe, chronic physical pain and that habitual aggressive teasing interactions with the mother are followed by similar behaviors of infants." Like in the drive theory, there has to be a connection to the biology and Kernberg believes that many of these individuals may not be autotelic as Csikszentmihalyi describes, to have an ability to self-satisfy with creative goals. "Inborn thresholds for the activation of positive (pleasurable, rewarding) and negative (painful, aggressive) affects represent, I believe, the most important bridge between biological and psychological determinants of the personality." This partly increases the envy, and is the reason why many victims can be talented, beautiful, or just have the capacity for hobbies, interests, zest, pleasure and initiative. The disordered can sense that many people have a light they don't have and resent them for it. In a way the envy is partly justified because if there's a genetic predisposition, or at least a belief that this has happened, it feels like losing a lottery. It explains why pathological types tend to attack pleasure and want to flaunt their own pleasure and hypocrisy at you, because they hate your light, and the only soothing mechanism left for them is sadism and leveling, which is the activity of taking down perceived advantages in others to soothe low self-esteem.

Pathology stems from an inborn difficulty to soothe oneself, find interests in the world, and then the teasing and abuse solidifies the character in this direction of being almost like a villain. The patient is between a rock and a hard place because their desires are socially unacceptable, their genetic predisposition leads them to an inflexibility when it comes to having skills to self-soothe, and then when there's teasing and criticism, including justifiable criticism for real behaviors, the affect and shame responses are so high that defense mechanisms become the only reliable avenues to pursue. These types know that the only way people can be resourceful to them in their lives is if they find leverage and power in society to make contrived relationships with others based on dependence, like a micro-dictatorship, which can morph into a macro one when the leverage tilts society enough in one direction. "You need me so you can't reject me!"

What the healthy have that is different is an integrated Super-ego. "The normal personality is characterized, first of all, by an integrated concept of the self and an integrated concept of significant others. These structural characteristics, jointly called ego identity, are reflected in an internal sense and an external appearance of self-coherence and form a fundamental precondition for normal self-esteem, self-enjoyment, and zest for life. An integrated view of one’s self assures the capacity for a realization of one’s desires, capacities, and long-range commitments. An integrated view of significant others guarantees the capacity for an appropriate evaluation of others, empathy, and an emotional investment in others that implies a capacity for mature dependency while maintaining a consistent sense of autonomy. The second structural characteristic of the normal personality, largely derived from ego identity, is ego strength, particularly as reflected in a broad spectrum of affect dispositions, capacity for affect and impulse control, and capacity for sublimation in work and values (also contributed to in important ways by superego integration). Consistency, persistence, and creativity in work as well as in interpersonal relations are also largely derived from normal ego identity, as are the capacity for trust, reciprocity, and commitment to others, also codetermined in significant ways by superego functions. The third aspect of the normal personality is an integrated and mature superego, representing an internalization of value systems...reflected in a sense of personal responsibility, a capacity for realistic self-criticism, integrity as well as flexibility in dealing with the ethical aspects of decision-making, and a commitment to standards, values, and ideals, and it contributes to such aforementioned ego functions as reciprocity, trust, and investment in depth in relationships with others. The fourth aspect of the normal personality is an appropriate and satisfactory management of libidinal and aggressive impulses. This involves the capacity for a full expression of sensual and sexual needs integrated with tenderness and emotional commitment to a loved other and a normal degree of idealization of the other and the relationship. Freedom of sexual expression is integrated with ego identity and the ego ideal. A normal personality structure includes the capacity for sublimation of aggressive impulses in the form of self-assertion, for withstanding attacks without excessive reaction, and for reacting protectively and without turning aggression against the self. Again, ego and superego functions contribute to such an equilibrium."

Part of the fear of engulfment is the lack of skill of boundaries to be able to be with people without turning into a complete hive mind and just imitating everything that is around. "An integrated superego, as we have seen, in turn strengthens the capacity for object relatedness as well as autonomy: An internalized value system makes the individual less dependent on external confirmation or behavior control while facilitating a deeper commitment to relationships with others. In short, autonomy and independence and a capacity for mature dependence go hand in hand." Society needs you to cooperate but it also needs your individual abilities to point out new scientific knowledge, to push back to protect your boundaries, and it needs your individual talents and abilities to connect society because not everyone can be in the same place in the economy with bottlenecks and "weeding out" systems in employment, which would lead to the very problems we see described above with emotional insecurity. A healthy society needs varieties of personalities, strengths, specialties, products, and services to trade with one another. Power decentralizes and the need for authoritarian systems dwindle precisely because the public sees they don't need dictators to scaffold their sense of self and they would prefer more autonomy.

Kohut also saw the need for healthy forms of aggression so that Narcissistic Rage has to give way to Ego assertion and anger can burn off into energy for assertiveness, especially in areas where there are actual rewards so that tilt of aggression can move towards positive emotions and various forms of satisfaction. "...Such rage must not be confused with mature aggression. Narcissistic rage enslaves the ego and allows it to function only as its tool and rationalizer. Mature aggression is under the control of the ego, and the degree of its neutralization is regulated by the ego in conformance with the purposes for which it is employed. The mobilization of narcissistic rage is therefore not an end point in analysis, but the beginning of a new phase—a phase of working through which is concluded when ego dominance in this sector of the personality has been established." To control anger without false pretense or unhealthy suppression, the energy needs a target and that's why for Kohut, the analysand has to find values to create realistic and achievable goals around for that assertiveness to find satisfaction. "The transformation of narcissistic rage is not achieved directly—e.g., via appeals to the ego to increase its control over the angry impulses—but is brought about indirectly, secondary to the gradual transformation of the matrix of narcissism from which the rage arose. The analysand's archaic exhibitionism and grandiosity must be gradually transformed into aim-inhibited self-esteem and realistic ambitions; and his desire to merge into an archaic omnipotent self-object has to be replaced by attitudes that are under the control of the ego, e.g., by his enthusiasm for meaningful ideals and by his devotion to them."

A decisive shift happens when grudges and resentments gradually turn into new zestful goals and plans. If political groups are running amok or one's bosses or business leaders are getting lost, instead of harsh brutal attacks, one can focus on the reality of their mistakes and focus on realistic solutions so that humor and humanity is preserved in it's imperfection. Kohut could see these gradual improvements in his patients and a weakening of the defense of splitting. "He continued to complain about the current stand-ins for the archaic idealized figure (his father who had disappointed him in his early life), but his attacks became less bitter and sarcastic, acquired an admixture of humor, and were more in tune with the real shortcomings of those whom he criticized. And there was another remarkable change: while he had formerly nourished his grudges in isolation (even in the analytic sessions his complaints were predominantly soliloquy, not message), he now banded together with his fellow workers and was able to savor, in enjoyable comradeship with them, the pleasure, of prolonged bull sessions in which the bosses were taken apart. In still later stages of his analysis when the patient had already mastered a large part of his psychological difficulties, some anger at idealized figures for withholding their approval continued to be in evidence—but now there was not only benign humor instead of sarcasm, and companionship instead of isolation, but also the ability to see some positive features in those he criticized, side by side with their defects."

In the next episode, we'll take a deep dive into what politics looks like when one doesn't get therapy, when one hates oneself and has no outlet. Sure some people commit suicide like Otto Weininger, but for those who don't, you need someone to blame and vent against. Politics is full of splitting, projection, character assassination, delusions of grandeur, lies, deception, and social engineering. When we feel helpless, hopeless, unsuccessful, poor, and emotionally castrated, who are the authority figures and role models that trigger our our desire for revenge? A modern influence that has been ignored at peril was the Community Organizer Saul Alinsky. When it comes to where Alinsky would like to go after death, he would like a very warm place and continue where he left off.

Case Studies: Dora and Freud:https://rumble.com/v1gu2dt-case-studies-dora-and-freud.html

Saul Alinsky "I'd Organize Hell":https://www.openculture.com/2017/02/13-rules-for-radicals.html

"The reason I would pick hell, because that's where all the have-nots are...Once I got into hell I'd start organizing, just like I do down here. I'd be in heaven personally, because this is the thing that gives me the greatest happiness in life. Look out heaven, here we come. I'm sure there are a lot of grievances that a lot of people have, to be worked out one way or another...When we go in there, we organize them, so they can have power, by power I mean the ability to act where they can become citizens, they can have a place at the decision making table, have something to say about their own future, the future of their kids, and as a consequence, be part of the American family...In the world as it is, the real question has always been that this particular end is justified by this particular means. In the world as it is, you have to start from where you are, not from where you wish you would be...Look at the issue of representation. You may talk about how the poor should have political equality, and that we respect them and so forth, but we don't in fact. Mostly we consider them a bunch of poor slobs...There's nothing worse than the combination of not only power but of self-righteousness..."

The Analysis of The Self - Heinz Kohut:https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780226450124/

How Does Analysis Cure? - Heinz Kohut: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780226006000/

The Search For The Self - Heinz Kohut: Volume 1: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780367328702/ Volume 2: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781855758742/ Volume 3: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780367328733/ Volume 4: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780429907890/

Aggressivity, Narcissism, and Self-Destructiveness in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship - Otto Kernberg: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780300101805/

Psychology: http://psychreviews.org/category/psychology01/

#fear of success #object relations #castrationcomplex #castration anxiety #Otto Kernberg #Heinz Kohut #ontological sickness

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The report captures the latest “Condiment Sauces market trends”, emerging technologies, and industry shifts, empowering clients to stay ahead of the curve. This section will present insights on brand promotion, product marketing, and target consumers.

Market Segmentation

This market research is based on key segments such as products, end-use industries, and regions. We intend to keep our clients informed about the latest trends in the market, and potential revenue streams for the forecast period.On the Basis of Type this market is categorized further into-

Ketchup

Barbeque Sauce

Soy Sauce

Chili Sauce

Mustard Sauce

and Others

On the Basis of Category this market is categorized further into-

Organic and Conventional

On the Basis of Distribution Channel this market is categorized further into-

Supermarkets & Hypermarkets

Convenience Stores

Online Retail

and Others

Key regions Condiment Sauces Market Research Report:

North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico)

Europe (U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Central & Eastern Europe, CIS)

Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, ASEAN, India, Rest of Asia Pacific)

Latin America (Brazil, Rest of Latin America)

The Middle East and Africa (Turkey, GCC, Rest of the Middle East and Africa)

Rest of the World

Author’s Bio:

Lisa Thomas

Research Analyst at The Insight Partners

#Condiment Sauces Market #Condiment Sauces Market Size #Condiment Sauces Market Share #Condiment Sauces Market Forecast

[joyousaboutjaccars]

Meet The JAC X200 Workhorse Range

The JAC workhorse is ideal for manoeuvring traffic and transporting heavy loads at a constant speed.

With six model variants and 10 body options, the JAC Motors X200 aims to meet the requirements of as many business applications as possible.

All the body options are fitted at the dealer level through approved suppliers to ensure no impact on vehicle warranties.

The X200 hauls its weight via a 2,8-litre turbo-diesel engine, with the 1,5-tonne single-cab offering a bigger payload than its competitors. Its double-cab sibling offers a 1,3-tonne load capacity with the added benefit of legally transporting six people inside the cab.

It offers an average fuel consumption of 8,0 l/100 km (combined cycle) and supports a Towing Mass (braked) of 1 250 kg.

The X200 body applications include refrigeration units, cargo boxes, tippers, and steel and customisable fibreglass canopies. The JAC X200 double-cab derivative also supports an approved Jurgens Caravans camper unit with modern-day camping amenities.

"The X200 has earned its place in the competitive forward-cab workhorse market. Its no-nonsense work attitude explains why it is popular with business owners and entrepreneurs," says Karl-Heinz Göbel, CEO of JAC Motors South Africa. "It isn't only very affordable but is a true all-rounder that can handle any task thrown it is the way.

Reliable and easy to maintain, the economical X200 features the ideal engine for our country's demanding conditions, making it the most cost-effective solution for transport operators.

The X200 has a double-wishbone independent front suspension and a ladder-frame chassis designed for stability, manoeuvrability, and solid handling regardless of how much payload it carries.

Additionally, it features large disc brakes in front, supported by drum brakes at the back, and a Load Sensing Proportioning Valve (LSPV) to take care of stopping power. The X200 double-cab features anti-lock braking, hydraulic-assisted power steering and a minimum turning radius of 5,75 metres.

The JAC workhorse is ideal for manoeuvring traffic and transporting heavy loads at a constant speed.

The X200 single-cab's load box measures almost 2,8 metres and supports a large load area of 4 595 sq/m. Its cargo area of 2 785 mm (length), 1 650 mm (width), and 355 mm high dropsides add up to a maximum permitted payload of 1 500 kg.

The double cab's maximum permitted payload is 1 300 kg, on a load area of 3 654 sq/m. Despite the space being used to fit three more people inside the cab, the cargo area of 2 215 mm (length) x 1 650 mm (width) and 355 mm high drop sides can still accommodate heavy and bulky loads.

"Its best-in-class performance, robust chassis design, and durable drivetrain meet the diverse needs of customers. Whether for deliveries, construction work or leisure applications, our dealers can address prospective customers' mobility needs at the grassroots level to ensure their competitive edge in the market," adds Göbel.

The X200 has an elevated driving position, front and rear crumple zones, side-impact protection bars, height-adjustable headlamps, an immobiliser, remote-controlled central locking with motion lock at 40 km/h and an engine that cannot ignite when the clutch is not engaged.

"The X200 is the only double-cab in a forward-cab configuration in the local market and offers distinctive benefits regarding crew transport. Considering that it still supports a payload of 1,3 tonnes like its single-cab rivals, it makes perfect sense for companies with labour-intensive working teams to buy this unique product," says Göbel.

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Source: https://www.carshop.co.za/news

#jac #trucks #commercial vehicles

[nfcwproject]

#nfcdab2024 Leise-Park 6th Ed. Berlin

Near-Field Communication Digital Art Biennale

#nfcdab is a DIY or DIWO(DO IT WITH OTHER)? digital art biennale that travels on wireless technologies, light waves and electromagnetic fields e.g.: Wi-Fi routers, QR codes or NFC tags to access content. the idea of the biennale is to take advantage of the potential of near-field (mis)communication and other sharing technologies for making web-based digital art accessible in outdoors settings. it slack-keeps presence next to the frameworks of galleries and institutions.

Vernissage and curatorial guided tour: 2 February 2024 2.00 – 3.00 PM

Open: 2 – 3 February 2024, 8.00 AM - 5.00 PM Leise-Park event abbreviated due to non-approval by the Berlin City Parks board!

Heinrich-Roller-Straße 24, 10405 Berlin (DE)

❗The list of presented art projects:

Adrian Pickett

Andrea Roccioletti

Andreas Maria Jacobs

Angy Vardalou.

Anna Pinkas

Benna Gaean Maris

Blazir

Bruce Barber

Bruno Melo

Dave Greber

Davey Whitcraft

Elaine Crowe

James Hutchinson

Karl Heinz Jeron

KiAy - Ayshe Kizilçay

Klaus Pinter

Marc Lee

Max Herman

Nicole Kouts

Osvaldo Cibils

Rudy Paganini - forevermidi_com

Tiz Creel

Zsolt Mesterhazy

Artist: Featuring Deatxwish, Taiki Arita, Tiến Nguyễn, Trí Thiện, Lê Duy, Xuân Minh, Gia Huy, Flounder Lee, Martina Noskova, Idklang, Aaporia, Magdi Mostafa, Jialun Wang, Hiroshi Murakami, David Longshaw, Athina Kanellopoulous, Ioana & Pablo, The Mainstream Official, Oksana Rudko, Liu Chang, Chloe Cheuk, Kayoko Nakamura, Aleksei Martyniuk, Blanche The Vidiot, F.C. Zuke, Nina Sumarac, Giuseppe De Benedittis, Ania Urbanski, Contaminated Carcass, Jaimerative Art.

❗list updated daily

#nfcdab #nfc art #digital #biennale #internet #digital art biennale #art #nfcdab2024 #Vorspiel #berlin

[let-the-living-beware]

Cora Sakamaki - Backstory Part I

──────────────── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ────────────────

– Someone told me stay away from things that aren’t yours

The night was still young when the woman stepped out to take a breather. She wasn't the biggest fan of parties but when the Vampire king invited her and only her she couldn't just say no. With a sigh she looked up into the sky, the stars reflecting in her golden eyes.

“You look beautiful Cora.” the soft voice of the king came from behind her.

Quickly she turned around, her pupils growing big when she finally saw him. He wore a dark brown suit, perfectly contrasting her violet dress. He looked mesmerizing. 

“You too, your highness.” she whispered and walked towards him. 

“Don’t call me that,” he laughed, they have known each other for years “call me Arnold, my dear.”

Cora and Arnold had an ongoing love affair while he was married to his first wife

Cora repeatedly wanted him to divorce his wife but he couldnt do it, not so easily. For years she tried and got into fights e´with him over that 

when his wife couldnt give him a son, he decided to get rid of her but the public wouldnt approve of this

he staged an accident and send his daughter Penelope to live with the founders

lived alone for three more years until people began talking why he wouldnt marry again

under the pretence of finding a wife he threw a ball and invited Cora and her sister 

Cora however never loved him

she is a very good manipulator and didnt wanna be a disappointment to her family so she pretended to be in love with him

eventually really fell in love and they married

after their death she would be known as Cora the first, the first Vampire queen

Arnold erased his first wifes and daughters existence 

– a pair of cursed twins, bound by bloody destiny 

Arnold walked towards his wife's room with a steady step, he was already too late. The negotiations with the founder King took a bit longer than expected. Not only because his daughter kept pestering him about meeting his grandchild but also because Gießbach didn't want to cooperate at all. 

When he finally arrived, he flung the door open and found Cora laying on the bed. She was peacefully sleeping and beside her a maid and two beds. She doted him to be quiet. 

Now more carefully he walked up to the beds, in them laid his children, eyes closed and hands beside their heads.

“Two boys.” Coras voice spoke from behind him, still sleepy. He turned around, slight tears in his eyes. Finally he would have an heir and with the women he loved too. 

“What are their names?” Cora smiled at him. “You decide. They are your sons after all.”

Now he turned around again, looking at them. Their white-pinkish hair just barely visible.

“Karl-Heinz and Cecil.”

Cecil and Karl were sold as the saviors of the still struggling Vampire clan

Karl was heavily favored by his mother 

she taught him everything about manipulation and how to get your way in the world 

she also focused on his intelligence and how to be perceived as the perfect prince 

Cecil was supposed to be the next Vampire king 

he got sword fighting lessons and training in magic 

his father took him to every meeting from the time he was 6 years old 

politics were one of the main things he taught even though he had no interest in any of this 

he was engaged to a young girl named Elizabeth

this changed when they found out that Cecil began researching stellar magic 

a forbidden magic that only founders practiced 

when he was 15 he also said that he didn't want to marry Elizabeth and it made rounds over the entire demon world

his father didn't want to disown him but threw of the the engagement and ignored Cecil from then on, only focusing on Karl who really enjoyed the new found attention 

in an last attempt to still make Cecil the next Vampire king he let them fight for the throne

Karl won and Cecil was officially forgotten 

he buried himself in his studies, earning himself the attention from his mother 

their bond began getting stronger and they remained in close contact until she died 

– here I stay, all dressed within the lies I can’t escape 

Cecil stood in the observatory, nervous. Today he not only turned 25 but he would also propose to the love of his life. For months now did he plan this, every detail. She knew about his feelings but they never made it official until now and if she said yes everything would be perfect. He had no doubt she would say yes, they were meant for each other. 

The glass door to the room opened, letting in a fresh breeze. There she stood, in a black-orange dress. Her beautiful blonde hair framing her face perfectly. She smiled a sad smile that Cecil, in all his nervousness, didn’t notice. 

He walked up to her, taking her hands in his.

“Beatrix I wanted to ask you something,” he began with a shaky voice “I always had feelings for you. From the first time I ever saw you”

“Cecil” she politely tried to interrupt him so as to not make it too painful but he didn’t stop.

“I knew I was in love with you, so.”

“Cecil!” this time it worked and he stopped, a confused look on his face. She freed herself from his grip and stepped backwards.

“I-” she took a deep breath to collect herself. “Karl proposed to me this morning.”

Cecil was speechless. Only now did he notice the small diamond ring, perfectly matched to her style. The guilt in her deep blue eyes and the way she avoided his gaze, something very untypical for her. 

“And I said yes. I am very sorry-”

“Go.”

“Cecil please don’t be dramatic-”

“Go or I will kill you.” tears began building in his eyes, why was the world so unfair. Cecil heard the door closing before a depressing silence overcame the room. How could she, how could Karl. Why was the world so unfair. 

Cecil meets Beatrix first at a ball

they get along great from the first second 

she is the first woman that could meet his intellect and he soon falls in love with her 

they often look at the stars together but after she met Karl, who had just married Cordelia 3 years prior, they see each other less

he was afraid Karl might try to marry her and wanted to propose as soon as possible 

but it was already too late 

Cecil was only half present the entire wedding and developed depression at the fact his brother took yet another thing from him 

Shu’s birth was probably the most straining thing for him, chasing the prince into the hole more and more 

the announcement of Beatrix being pregnant again finally pushed him over the edge 

at the same time he also began to decipher spells, finding one that promised a fast death 

he tried to kill himself on the day Reiji was born but the spell was wrong, it only promised death when you had committed no sin. If you should have then you would be cursed 

Cecil was cursed with the body of a woman, one that resembled his mothers and immortality 

whenever he should die, a blue mark would appear on his body 

this mark becomes bigger with every death until it fully consumes him and takes control over his body

first he really struggled with that but came to terms with it in the end 

he changed his gender and name 

from then on she would be known as Cora II Sakamaki. Karl-heinz younger sister

#diabolik oc #Cora Sakamaki #my ocs #This is the first part #I had it ready for like two months #but my Ocs are giving me a hard time lately so I dont know when the second part will be posted