Chapter 31 Section 12 A typical pathological image

"My bowels are full of shit, and I try to get it out, but no matter how hard I try, I'm still full of shit." At first glance, it sounds like my patient, Oss, was complaining to me about his My digestive system is dysfunctional, but I still appreciate the symbolism in Oss's words. "You're saying your life is full of shit and you can't clean it out." I just extended the concept of his gut to his life. "By the way, my life is full of shit. Can you imagine a life full of shit? It's stinky, useless, painful, torture." "Dung has invaded every corner of your life." I followed his train of thought and pushed forward.

“I was in pain all over my body, my joints, my guts, my nerves, my brain were all infested with shit.” Oss attributed his pathology to his shit imagery. "So, you need to cleanse the shit out of all your joints, viscera, and nerves." I don't judge the science of his shit invasion theory, just follow his line of thinking to move forward. "That's right. I need a pipe cleaner to come into my body and clean the shit out of me." "I think I'm the pipe cleaner," I volunteered. During the "Cultural Revolution", there was an interesting phenomenon: excrement workers became role models for the whole society to learn from.A excrement worker in Beijing was received by the great leader and shook hands because of his love of excavation.As a result, there are often stories in the newspapers that a certain manure digger jumped into the cesspool to find a watch that fell into the cesspool for a careless toilet user.Looking at it now, the "Cultural Revolution" was really a big shit movement of the Chinese nation. In that movement, those who pulled shit and cleaned up shit all over the world were heroes, and anything related to the image of shit could be popular for a while.What a deplorable group psychopathology when a nation's attention is so focused on shit.

"America is a society full of shit, you know?" said one of my patients named Mike. You have to be prepared for 20 hours a day of shit. Your boss, your customers are full of shit buckets, and you have to be ready to be drenched head to toe with a bucket of shit.” "Shit" means big shit.The frequency of this word in American life is really high.I did psychotherapy for patients in the United States, and found that the image of manure is actually a mainstream image in American life today.Those pro-democracy activists who shouted that China must be fully Westernized probably didn't realize that the shit culture in the United States is also overwhelming and reaching its peak.If it is fully Westernized, we Chinese will suffer twice (big dung) and suffer twice (big dung).

Whitney Kanter, the master of the object relations school of psychodynamic therapy, proposed a "container" theory.He believes that the psychotherapist must be like a container large enough to contain the psychological problems that the patient cannot handle.Corresponding to Whitneycott's container theory, if I face a patient who can't handle a full belly of feces, wouldn't I become a toilet.Wow, this toilet has to be large enough to be considered a good toilet. Get intimate with someone who has regressed to the anal stage of baby libido One of my patients, Danny, told me that he was looking for a therapist who could take enough shocking information.I was immediately interested in this concept of "shocking information", and thought that I had already practiced the indestructible body of King Kong, and no amount of "shock" could disturb my mind.

Danny smiled mysteriously: "We have been together for 3 months. I have been carefully testing, trying to understand your shock resistance to shocking information." "Don't worry, I'm invulnerable to all poisons." "What did you have for breakfast?" Danny suddenly asked me such an insignificant question. "Why do you ask such a question?" "Don't you care what I have for breakfast?" "Tell me about it." At that moment, I felt the complexity of this simple question.Is there any shocking content hidden in it? "I eat shit, that fresh shit????"

My momentary sense of antics gradually turned to nausea as Danny described it in detail, as if I, too, had joined Danny's crazy heterophasia. "Did you feel it?" Danny narrowed his eyes and examined me.In his eyes, he seemed very proud. I was really shocked by his shocking information.Although I really couldn't prove how much Danny's words were true or false, I quickly calmed down the little fluctuation in my heart.However, I think such shocking information is almost an insurmountable gap for a female psychologist who loves beauty. American psychoanalyst Mei Ninger believes that the core of psychoanalysis is to allow patients to gradually degenerate back to early childhood.According to Freud's theory of the origin and development of children's sexuality, children's "libido" (psychological energy) has gone through the oral, anal and genital stages in the development process, and the consolidation of libido at any stage will lead to psychological sick.Psychoanalysis, then, attempts to regress the patient step by step back in the course of treatment to each of the stages of childhood sexual development.Meininger pointed out that when the patient regresses to the anal stage, the patient will gradually show anal-related content verbally, and all feces-related topics will be expressed in various ways, and the whole treatment room can become smelly sky.If a psychiatrist who loves cleanliness cannot endure such psychological torture, it is impossible for the patient's degeneration process to continue.

Psychologically, Danny has regressed to the anal stage of childish eroticism when he is serious and takes pains to describe what it feels like to eat shit.Only at this stage can he gradually rebuild and develop his anal desire that was entrenched in the anal stage through dirty words to the psychiatrist.