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%PERVERSE PERMISSION 780530
The granting of perverse permission may be a
technique by which one person may maintain control over
another. By granting perverse permission it may be
possible to maintain the power to grant permission. To
outright deny permission might provoke rebellion; but
granting perverse permission may prompt a subordinated
person to continue to accept a subordinated status. The
participants in the granting/accepting of perverse
permission may not be consciously aware of the perverse
nature of the situation. They may not be aware of the
lack of mutuality and the presence of unjust control. Even
so, the subordinated person is likely to feel resentment
and tend toward rebellion.
When there is a pattern of one person granting
another person(s) permission it is useful to ask what
function the granting of permission and the possibility of
withholding of permission serves. Whose interests are
served thereby? Those of the superior only? Those of the
subordinate? The public welfare? It is useful to ask
whether or not there is genuine love exercised by the
power that presumes to promote justice. Is the granting
of permission promoting the growth of the subordinated
person? Or is the granting of permission a means of
maintaining the subordinated person in a state of
dependency without awareness of the nature of the
relationship/process?
It is not helpful for the dominant person to grant
the subordinated person permission to rebel. Such a grant
is but an example of perverse permission. So also are
grants of permission to think independently, be free from
guilt, to have privacy, to take initiatives, etc. It is
more healthy for the subordinated person to become an
independent self and for the dominant person to accept the
fact of the other's independence; to recognize the fact
that there are situations in which it is unhealthy to
grant permission, or to presume that anyone has the power
to grant permission.
Perverse permission is permission which is granted by
someone who presumes to have a power to grant
permission---when such power has not been granted to them
and for them to have such power would not be in the public
interest.
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