Thread by @DemokratieDr

Thesis
The highest goal of all human beings, as far as they have not been damaged in soul and spirit, is a life in peace, in community and in love.
In contrast, there are numerous conflicts in all areas ...

All people can learn again to see the world with their hearts, perceiving their true feelings. There are many wonderful and genuine role models.

All human beings are basically searching for the meaning of their lives. Many forget their search in the course of their lives because they lose touch with their heart and their real feelings, alienated from themselves they become slaves of the material, of money, of the rulers.

All human beings find the meaning of their lives only in love for themselves and in love for their fellow human beings and all life, in the joint shaping of society and the joint development of their possibilities in social exchange,

in being there for each other, and not in the greed for material wealth and for power.

All "evil" people are basically wounded, victims of "unspeakable violence", alienated from themselves, who have lost access to their heart and their true feelings. "You banish acts of violence from your consciousness - that is a normal reaction.

Certain violations of the social contract are too horrible to say out loud: That is what is meant by the word 'unspeakable'. But acts of violence cannot simply be buried. The desire to deny something terrible is opposed by the certainty that denial is impossible.

Many legends and fairy tales tell of ghosts who do not want to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder must come to light. Remembering terrible events and speaking the ghastly truth are preconditions for the restoration of social order,

for the recovery of the victims. The conflict between the desire to deny terrible events and the desire to speak them out loud is the central dialectic of trauma. People who have survived a trauma often tell about it in such an emotional, contradictory

and fragmentary way that they seem untrustworthy. This is a way out of the dilemma of having to tell the truth on the one hand and maintain silence on the other. Only when the truth is acknowledged can the victim's recovery begin.

But much more often, silence is maintained and the story of the traumatic event emerges not as a narrative but as a symptom. The symptoms of psychological suffering in traumatised people point to the existence of an unspeakable secret and at the same time distract from it.

This is particularly evident when victims alternately lapse into numbness and re-experience the event ever more profoundly. The dialectic of trauma creates complex, sometimes uncanny changes in consciousness.

George Orwell spoke of "doublethink", psychiatrists and psychologists coin the factually precise term "dissociation".
(Judith Hermann, in "Scars of Violence. Understanding and Overcoming Traumatic Experiences.")

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