PSYCH232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Demonic Possession
20 Mar 2013
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Faces of the enemy (creating the perception of evil) Someone blocking your goal, you get angry, and you respond by pushing back [self. The initial reaction of fear is being afraid but the secondary is anger: anger, disgust and fear can all activate hatred, hatred"s goal is eliminating/ killing/ destroying the other. The more the enemy is different, the more the enemy is wanted to be dehumanized. =anger; symbolic disgust (things that contaminate the souls, things that you don"t want to see; talking about immoral deeds not objects) The angry lady on the film (if world was not corrupted, contaminated, everything would be fine) Glutton they just want more and more, they want to take everything away from me. Rapist sexual element to their sadism or aggression. =core disgust (more about protecting the body from contamination, things feeling creepy, dirty or disease)
