The Need to Punish
I want to emphasize that the “stranger” in us is bred by a culture that won’t accept the spontaneous expression of children’s aliveness and vitality. This aspect of a culture gives rise to violent behavior and is responsible for the development of deficient identities. Personalities formed by the processes producing the inner stranger were never able to develop trust as an underlying component of their personality. Instead, they take on a “false identity” that makes them idealize repressive authorities in the hope that they will be rescued by the very people who are their tormentors.
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