PSYCHOBUILDING

                                                      

                                  Oh no!, not another method.

 

 

              Use your noodle, 2010

 

Psychobuilding vs. body building 

 

plurium interrogationum:

What do Pablo Picasso , Snoopy , David Hasselhoff , Kasimir Malevich , Kim Jeong-hui , Henry Spencer Moore , Spongebob Squarepants , and so on have in common?  

We don't just reveal qualities, in objects that the onlooker tends to overlook; we also establish connections, a spaghettification in its own right, that hopefully goes beyond a viewer's assumptions or expectations – we create relationships. Relationships exist as the means by which different things (dead objects), concepts or individuals (objects) are linked/glued/nailed/overlapping/entangled and influence one another. It's again the space in between the objects that we thrive on.  

We would like to name this process, this method of production “Psychobuilding” [1].

Fun fact:

One has to understand that one is not one person. There is only the appearance of a self. To be quite precise, we don't have a self and, in fact, the so-called 'self' is a myth, an unmeaning of vacuous character. Self means divided from vacuum (hollow), emptiness, or also known as Śūnyatā , which may be a state not as great as it first seems by the description. TBEOL

Self, individual, and personality: These are three concepts that are conjured out of thin air. They are not validated by any research or study.  

But how can you feel?

There seems to be an adaptive scheme, which is called a self-state , a concept invented/popularized by Philip Bromberg . This is a new explanation model in psychology. Every newborn creates self-states.

Self-states are facets of a prism through which light scatters. We are collections of self-states. Self-states are internal objects. Self-states, relationships, self and thus personality do not stay the same over time. Most of your domain-traits are unstable, and very few of them, if any, survive life on. (Like for example my lewd- and laziness.)

They are constructed around relationships, they are contextual. Self-states are representations, that is they are illusions of an illusion. The relationship defines you. Other people define you. So why do you think that you are the same? Why do you feel coherent? How come you feel continuous? You don't get up in the morning and be like, I am not the same person today. I will be/am somebody else today. Let's say Bill Gates , or how about John Waters (sorry both are already taken). 

How do healthy people decide which self-state will function? We need self-statements with narrative context. So, this together could be called (a) pseudo-identity, Sam Vaknin ≈ which includes the self-states, ego-functions, and probes, stimulation, extracting information from the environment and framing it inside one another.         

What Victor Frankl said, essentially, was that we need (in order to survive) is a narrative. A narrative that ends us with meaning.  

If reality is allowed to penetrate, we will lose our essence. Our essence is inventing meaning. But to invent meaning, we need to falsify reality. And we falsify reality through defense mechanisms, like Phantusee . 

All defense mechanisms are dissociative because they suppress reality and they are the glue, nail, paint, link, overlap, entanglement that holds such things together in a meaningful way. 

How do you feel about this?

                                                          

                    A Psychobuilding.

 

[1] Uncaringly pilfered from "Psychobuildings" ISBN-13. 978-3883750958 one of hard working, and even harder drinking Martin Kippenberger 's highly perceptive and beloved artist's books, fully-illustrated after black-and-white street photographs that he captured during his travels through Brazil and Spain. Published in 1988.