Table of ContentsThe History and Psychology of Gaslighting
1. "You're Just Being Too Sensitive"
Recognizing Emotional Minimization
Building Emotional Resilience
2. Denial and Contradictions
The Importance of Trusting Your Memory
Establishing a Support Network
3. Name-Calling and Discrediting
Recognizing and Confronting Discrediting Behavior
Rebuilding Self-Esteem and Confidence
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#boundaries #Confidence #contr
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Work on the translation of Proudhon's Justice in the Revolution and the Church continues steadily and is now well ahead of the schedule I had set myself, despite a bout of the still-lurking plague complicating matters in March. Today, I started translating the Fifth Study, on education and the draft files for the project contain roughly 411,000 words (1280 double-spaced pages) of new or previously unshared translation. [...]
There is a lot of interesting material in Proudhon's unpublished manuscripts, not all of which is vital to understanding his project, but there are two sets of texts in particular that any serious student should at least be aware of—if only to know what we don't know. [...]
It's no very great leap from the position I had already taken in "A Schematic Anarchism" to the one I've been exploring in Proudhon's manuscripts. In general, I have been proposing that we shift our approach from endless, more or less interminable arguments about whether or not a given ideology or practice is anarchism or not to analyses of proposed anarchisms that ask: "If we treat X as an instance of anarchism, in what sense is that claim true and how does it compare to other instances?" The answers to that question ought to demonstrate that some of the proposed anarchisms only qualify in the most trivial senses, on the basis of the most implausible explanations, while others can be plausibly situated among the ranks of anarchisms on the basis of a variety of plausible narratives. [...]
One of the things that makes those later works so difficult for anarchists to understand and use is that, while they are the occasion for some of the most interesting developments of Proudhon's anarchistic social science, they are, almost without exception, addressed to problems within clearly archic social systems. [...]
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