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%RESPECTABLE INSANITY 780705
There are many forms of insanity. Some forms of
insanity occasion excommunication of the "insane" person.
Other forms of insanity occasion the excommunication of
the "healthy" person. (Usually excommunication is mutual.)
Yet other forms of insanity may occasion no
excommunication.
Respectable insanity often occasions the
excommunication of healthy non-collusive persons.
Respectable insanity is of a type which pertains to the
nature of the relationship between an individual and a
group. Such insanity is not a condition of an individual.
It is a condition having to do with a relationship between
the insane and the sane. In respectable insanity it is a
collusive group of people who are behaving in ways which
do violence to personal integrity because the collusive
group has lost touch with humane realities. A "healthy"
person perceives the collusions of the group. The group is
threatened by that perception and regards it and the non-
collusive person to be perverse, "insane". The "healthy"
person is excommunicated via a tacit agreement that the
"healthy" person is insane. The insane group thus
maintains it's respectability, and rids itself of the
troublesome critic that sees through the collusions of the
group.
The "healthy" person who perceives the collusions of
a collusive group is "declared" to be insane in a non-
respectable way. The excommunicated sane person may then
really go insane, or may succeed in coping with collusions
in a loving way. If placed in unresolvable double-binds,
the sane person may resort to genuinely perverse coping
routines which do violence to both self and others. In
such instances the respectable insane society occasions
the insanity of the healthy person, and all become insane,
some respectably and a few non-respectably.
To avoid the generation of increasing amounts of
relational insanity we need to discover ways of coping
with participants in collusions in loving ways. It is
not enough to attack their collusions, or join their
collusions. The collusions need to be dis-affirmed while
affirming the participants and avoiding the collusion's
recruitment powers. It is difficult to love participants
in collusions without getting recruited into their
collusions; i.e., going respectably insane with them. It
is also difficult to disaffirm lovers' collusions without
being excommunicated as a dis-respectable insane person.
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