Journeys Into the Unconscious Mind

Journeys Into the Unconscious Mind

The Ironic Flaw in WOKE Extremism

The Problem of Splitting and Projective Identification in Social Movements (Vol 2; Issue 48)

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Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD
Dec 20, 2022
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Those involved in major social movements like WOKE* confront a dilemma common to all political activists:

How to avoid exacerbating the trends you strive to reverse.

The anti-racism component of WOKE, ironically, faces the same Ouroborus**-like problem. We humans inevitably collect individuals into faceless groups, i.e., the unhoused, migrants, college so…

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