Saturday, November 05, 2005
Text Book Labels
Affiliation is a coping device I learned about in psychology. It’s we use real or fake affiliations to boost our self-esteem. The example my teacher gave is…imagine you’re having a bad day so you go out to a place were there are people you don’t know so you put on your letter jacket before you go. The jacket is the symbol used to show people your worth by using the coping device of affiliation. Most of my time is spent dwelling in pseudo-affiliation reveries. I dream of having tangible friends with a spontaneous need to include me. But I don’t want friends for the mere excuse of affiliation in which to cope with my inadequacies. I want friends for my strange need to start building memories that actually involve other human beings…weird concept. I’m sure I’ll find a label for me some where in my psychology text book before the semester is over.
Affiliation is a coping device I learned about in psychology. It’s we use real or fake affiliations to boost our self-esteem. The example my teacher gave is…imagine you’re having a bad day so you go out to a place were there are people you don’t know so you put on your letter jacket before you go. The jacket is the symbol used to show people your worth by using the coping device of affiliation. Most of my time is spent dwelling in pseudo-affiliation reveries. I dream of having tangible friends with a spontaneous need to include me. But I don’t want friends for the mere excuse of affiliation in which to cope with my inadequacies. I want friends for my strange need to start building memories that actually involve other human beings…weird concept. I’m sure I’ll find a label for me some where in my psychology text book before the semester is over.
# posted by Nick D @ 6:42 PM 
