Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Psychopathology
There is a riddle which is supposed to detect a sociopath: A woman has two sisters. One of them dies. At the funeral she meets a nice man who dates her. Next week, she murders her other sister. Why? If anyone spontaneously answers "To get another date" then supposedly they are sociopaths who see people as means to some end and to be manipulates or used like pawns. Psychopath is sometimes synonymous with sociopath except with the word psychopath we tend to think of a Hitchcock thriller with strident violin music. I read one Jungian text which stated on page one: Psyche = soul, Pathos = suffering, Logos = reason hence "psychopathology" means "finding the reason for the suffering of the soul."
