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Originally Posted by mala
There's a fictional book called beyond black by Hlary mantel. It sort of shows transmeduiumship and dissassociation - very interesting. My personal opinion is that everything is spiritual, that even so called evil things can be covered in layers of holiness until you get to the core of it - like a bright soft fruit with a hard core.
mala
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Ive read that book. it doesnt say transeduimship is like or the same as dissociation. the person dissociated what the father had done to her and didnt remember it until after she started seeing her fathers ghost then her memories of her father surfaced. she recounts her story of her father and seeing the fathers ghost like a person who dissociated does - in pieces and with lack of affect (lack of feelingsand lack of emotions in her tone of voice while she is telling about her father and seeing his ghost and what happened to him)
this kind of thing lack of affect where survivors tell about their abusers and what happened with little to no emotions is normal and you dont have to dissociate for it to happen.
some reviews on the book by critics use the term dissociated because in general and in the normal sense of the word it means seemingly unconnected to ones feelings and emotions, and in the general sense of the word is now being used in some places to mean and describe the psychiatric term - lack of affect.
the words - dissociated, dissociation like many other words began meaning one thing and has evolved to cover many different ways of explaining things.
it doesnt always mean the same thing as a dissociation disorder would. in the non psychaitric world its becoming the in word to use for all kinds of things. I even heard it said at the garage... a machanic said "yea your nuts and bolts are all dissociating" meaning I had a loose nut and bolt which is what the rattling I heard was when my partner was driving down the road one night.
it doest mean the concept of tranmediumship and dissociation are connected.
its just a term to explain how that psychic showed no emotions when talking about her father and her repressed memories of him. just like a rape victim will sit there and tell you every single detail of the attack but do so as if telling you the most unimportant thing in her life with no emotional connection to it.
like I said another term for how they are using the word dissociation in this book is called lack of affect.
