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%EMOTIONALIZATION VS. RATIONALIZATION 791217
People who value reason and logic more than emotions
tend to rationalize their emotions. They feel that they
must explain, justify, legitimize, etc. their basic
desires and feelings. It is not enough to desire, the
desire must be made to appear proper according to some
formal system of definition of what is proper. To accept
primitive desires on their own ground is to threaten
formal systems and those people whose lives are dedicated
to the maintenance of formal systems. Such formalists
require rationalization, requiring others to explain,
justify, legitimize their desires, emotions feelings, etc.
That which can not be rationalized must be suppressed,
denied, excused, forgiven, punished, etc. Thus legalists
tend to define which feelings, emotions, desires, etc. are
to be permitted, and on what grounds. In this way many
personal experiences are defined to be improper, and it is
dangerous to admit, much less accurately describe, such
experiences---even if they are completely subjective.
Rationalizers are threatened by subjective experiences
which they can not rationalize.
Emotionalization is the mirror image of
rationalization. People who value emotions more than
reason and logic may seek to understand logical
conclusions and reasonably chosen courses of action --- in
emotional terms, making them acceptable by putting them in
an affective context which gives them personal meaning.
Such effectively oriented people tend not to experience
the force of logic and reason of the formal sorts which
preoccupies rationalizers. Understanding is contextual
and personal in nature, not analytic and formal. That is
comfortable which is familiar in personal experience or
similar to that which is familiar. Logical conclusions
may not be comfortable, and be in need of emotionalization
to make them comfortable. A course of action which reason
demands may be resisted until it is emotionalized, just as
for other people a desire is resisted until it is
rationalized.
Both emotionalization and rationalizations are
efforts to maintain integrity. People try to perceive
themselves and their behavior as having integrity. Because
of various dichotomies this often difficult, and the
processes by which they attempt to perceive integrity ---
may themselves lack integrity.
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