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Rape is being used as a weapon as fighting rages in remote parts of Tigray region. “Even if we had shouted,” one woman said, “there was no one to listen.”
nytimes.com/2021/04/01/world/africa/ethiopia-tigray-sexual-assault.html
Even the most pessimistic and imaginative among us cannot drink from the cup of pure reality (the macro and micro drama that goes on in this planet) without diluting it with psychological partialization.
Partilization:
The psychologist Otto Rank came up with a useful term for what we all do. We partialize. We pretend our something is everything. The world is just too much, so we take a slice of it and call it our own, often discounting, dismissing, and disparaging the paths we didn’t take.
You hear traces of partialization in the pride with which we show and tell and post about the life we’ve got and the opinions we hold.
We say what we need to hear to keep us feeling comfortable in our comfort zone. The more threatened it is, the more we’ll partialize, hunkering down, battening down the hatches.
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ambigamy/201910/everybodys-got-thing-some-dont-know-how-handle-it
"Rank has a perfect, key term for this natural human talent: he calls it "partialization" and very rightly sees that life is impossible without it. What we call the well-adjusted man has just this capacity to partialize the world for comfortable action.
In other words, men aren't built to be gods, to take in the whole world; they are built like other creatures, to take in the piece of ground in front of their noses. Gods can take in the whole of creation because they alone can make sense of it, know what it is all about and for. But as soon as a man lifts his nose from the ground and starts sniffing at eternal problems like life and death, the meaning of a rose or a star cluster-then he is in trouble. Most men spare themselves this trouble by keeping their minds on the small problems of their lives just as their society maps these problems out for them. These are what Kierkegaard called the "immediate" men and the "Philistines." They "tranquilize themselves with the trivial"- and so they can lead normal lives.”
-Ernest Becker
Rape is being used as a weapon as fighting rages in remote parts of Tigray region. “Even if we had shouted,” one woman said, “there was no one to listen.”
nytimes.com/2021/04/01/world/africa/ethiopia-tigray-sexual-assault.html
Even the most pessimistic and imaginative among us cannot drink from the cup of pure reality (the macro and micro drama that goes on in this planet) without diluting it with psychological partialization.
Partilization:
The psychologist Otto Rank came up with a useful term for what we all do. We partialize. We pretend our something is everything. The world is just too much, so we take a slice of it and call it our own, often discounting, dismissing, and disparaging the paths we didn’t take.
You hear traces of partialization in the pride with which we show and tell and post about the life we’ve got and the opinions we hold.
We say what we need to hear to keep us feeling comfortable in our comfort zone. The more threatened it is, the more we’ll partialize, hunkering down, battening down the hatches.
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ambigamy/201910/everybodys-got-thing-some-dont-know-how-handle-it
"Rank has a perfect, key term for this natural human talent: he calls it "partialization" and very rightly sees that life is impossible without it. What we call the well-adjusted man has just this capacity to partialize the world for comfortable action.
In other words, men aren't built to be gods, to take in the whole world; they are built like other creatures, to take in the piece of ground in front of their noses. Gods can take in the whole of creation because they alone can make sense of it, know what it is all about and for. But as soon as a man lifts his nose from the ground and starts sniffing at eternal problems like life and death, the meaning of a rose or a star cluster-then he is in trouble. Most men spare themselves this trouble by keeping their minds on the small problems of their lives just as their society maps these problems out for them. These are what Kierkegaard called the "immediate" men and the "Philistines." They "tranquilize themselves with the trivial"- and so they can lead normal lives.”
-Ernest Becker
