
The
other mask


In
the classic
the
person and the mask itself.
The
same actor came to stage with several masks that corresponded
to
different roles.
In
real life all of us represent different roles that in stage would correspond
to
different masks: the mask-role of the employee, the one of the husband, the
father, etc.
In
real life the schizoid presents a characteristic behaviour that in stage
would
correspond to the schizoid mask, a mask that is an answer
to
a hostile-felt environment.
But
schizoids keep another mask, more internal, a mask
not
conditioned by their bad adaptation to social environment.
When,
once in a blue moon, the schizoid does not feel the pressure
of
the social environment, he can show the other mask and then we can meet
a
sensitive person, in need of affection, happy, with feelings,
willing
to take part in anything, to be someone in somewhere, with admiration
for
the social success of others, sometimes creative...
Although
we can not see, when the schizoid acts with that another mask, he/she can dedicate
with
a surprising perseverance to his daytime fantasies of power and revenge.
All
of this exists, although in different grade and with different extension within
oneself,
varying
from one to others.
However
in this web we'll mainly describe the schizoid mask.
This
vision of both masks is completed with other vision: the one of two I’s. GO to “I are two”
TESTIMONY of
KAFKA
“I want to
point out what is easily forgotten when one contemplates the works of Kafka:
his tuck for the joy of the world and of life.
In the intimate conversations Kafka surprisingly spoke freely, coming to
showing enthusiasm, to be even charming. The jokes and laughter did not come to
an end; he laughed heartily at ease and knew to make his friends laugh, too.
That mood became particularly clear when it was Kafka himself who read his
works. For example, we, his friends, erupted in laughter when we did hear the
first chapter of "The process". And he himself laughed so much that
at times he could not continue reading. Pretty amazing if you think about the
terrible seriousness of this chapter.”
Max Brod, friend of Kafka
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