Re: Aren’t There Any Hets Left?
On Nov 3, 2006, at 12:44 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
Doug:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/03/haggard.allegations/index.html
I’ve said this before, and it seems to get truer all the time: it’s as if it’s a condition of possibility for being a high-profile fundie that you have a secret life.
[WS:] Is it not what the Freudians called “reaction formation?”
Your id desires something but your super ego says it is morally wrong, so
you form a reaction that satisfies both the id and the super-ego: hostile
fixation with the object of you desires. This way, you can have it both ways.
You are au currant with the conventional morality, better yet, you appear to be a staunch and valiant defender of it. At the same time you are in a
close proximity to the dark sphere of your id desires.
Yup, there’s that, which is also what Michael Smith said. But I
suspect that it’s also impossible for most people to live the upright
lives the fundies demand, so they just need an outlet.