Out of control classrooms in secondary and elementary schools (Train manners, mobile phone manners, etc.) Shut-ins teenagers, young adults, or adults into their 30s-40s who will not leave their home or roomĪntagonistic/Violent Incivility in Public Places
“Not currently engaged in Education, Employment or Training” Temp workers serially underemployed young people Young single adults who continue living with parents It is the “passive,” or dissociative trends that will be the focus of this paper, but the two are by no means unrelated, and it might be useful to get an overall glimpse of both in the following table: Social Problems in Japan Dissociative “ Makeinu“ (“losing dogs”) Of particular note is a growing cluster of social problems in Japan which exhibit both the “passive” and the “aggressive” characteristics noted in Bailie’s observation above–the “two arch ways” of warding off interpersonal influence. Japan is a nation that seems to be experiencing most of the characteristic “malaise” of other developed countries, along with a severe demographic decline (Hisane 2006). Even the much-discussed demographic decline in developed nations might be understood as a mimetic “opting out”–the reduction or elimination of fraught relationships that marriage or child rearing would necessarily entail. And indeed, much of the “malaise” that currently permeates the developed world can be seen as comprising greater or lesser degrees of social disengagement, whether it be from romantic commitment, from marriage, from child-rearing and family, or from school, work, communication, or everyday interaction. Yet, if Girard is right about the effects of social leveling in a progressively desacralized ethos, namely, that it inflames and exacerbates mimetic desire ( Things Hidden 307-308, Resurrection 58-59, Deceit 135-137), then dissociative tendencies should be at least as much in evidence as antagonistic ones. In fact, Bailie’s brief exposition above is the only instance I can recall it being directly mentioned at all. The dissociative response to mimetic entanglement is of particular interest, since it is not usually given much attention in mimetic theory. And the more profoundly afflicted can choose extreme social withdrawal or pathological violence. If the “hysteric” can be either catatonic or histrionic, the better adjusted person, when faced with mimetic entanglement–that is, interpersonal struggle–can likewise choose simple non-participation or antagonistic engagement. (1)This seems to me a useful encapsulation of some basic mimetic realities, and one that could be extended to situations that are both more normal and more extreme.
Hysteria is clearly the self pathologically entangled with another. And the other is histrionics, to “act out,” to try to exorcise the other, and to demonstrate that the hysteric is, in fact, the real subject. So the hysteric goes blank as a way of trying to ward off the influence.
One is to become autistic, in a sense–an emotional dissociation. And the hysteric has two arch ways of warding off this influence.
He hysteric is one who is being influenced by another, who resents and rebels against the influence.
#FREETER VS NEET VS HIKIKOMORI SERIES#
In the course of discussing Freud in his lecture series The Gift of Self, Gil Bailie (1994) points out the mimetic nature of “hysteria”:
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