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« You feel gradually guilty, inferior, incompetent, and it is precisely this self-deprecation that prevents you from thinking that the aggressor has no right to act like this. In the long run, repeated violence creates a state of dissociation and emotional anesthesia, resulting in many paradoxical behaviours (banalization of your abuser's actions, dependence on the abuser, inability to exercise autonomy and free will, confusion, partial amnesia). »
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Ariane Calvo
The set-top box for psychological violence |
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Ariane Calvo
The set-top box for psychological violence
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« What Gerda Boyesen discovers is essential and liberating: our personality could develop an intimacy with oneself, without fear of loneliness, allowing it to have autonomy in the face of the demands, expectations, refusals or disappointments of the entourage. What a relief! p.59 »
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Ariane Calvo
Finding vital momentum |
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Ariane Calvo
Finding vital momentum
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« "I want to tell you that you have the right to be afraid, you have the right to have tried a thousand times and to have failed a thousand and one times, you have the right to have dreamed of it a hundred times and to have given up just as much." »
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Ariane Calvo
The set-top box for psychological violence |
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Ariane Calvo
The set-top box for psychological violence
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