Posted by alexandra_k on September 22, 2006, at 20:39:42
In reply to Re: Blame - Trigger, posted by antigua on September 22, 2006, at 19:59:54
> Some of this discussion really sounds like ambivalence--the trick is to hold both the good (if there is any) and the evil together in the one person.Yes. The discussion is around *how* to do that.
> I personally cannot balance them; I tend to falter on wanting my father to be the "good" father and have a hard time even admitting to myself (my defense) that he could have been so evil.
Maybe it comes of viewing it as a matter of *good* and *evil*. How to combine good and evil?
Maybe lifting the judgement of good an evil can allow you to integrate...
Sometimes people exhibit behaviour that makes us feel good and sometimes people exhibit behaviour that makes us feel bad. There is no contradiction in that. Whereas blending good with bad... Has an air of contradiction about it...
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