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   Martha Bridegam to Joe Fineman   
   Re: Schwartz vs Hobsbawm on Catalonia   
   09 Mar 07 05:32:57   
   
   From: bridegam@pacbell.net   
      
   Joe Fineman wrote:   
   > Martha Bridegam  writes:   
   >   
   >> I've seen people act like this in divorces -- magnifying the ex's   
   >> faults to reassure themselves that separating was the right thing to   
   >> do. It's a sign of secret ambivalence about whether they really   
   >> should try to make up again.   
   >   
   > Psychologists investigate this phenomenon under the silly-sounding   
   > rubric of "cognitive dissonance".   
      
   Not "reaction formation"? Or is it both?   
      
   /M   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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