![]() What I’m trying to say is, watch that film and you’ll get a full dose of what it means to gaslight or to be gaslighted. She was (and remains) one of my favourite actresses of the old Hollywood. I actually don’t mind watching this movie starring Ingrid Bergman again. I had watched the movie before, a long time ago actually, such a long time ago that I don’t remember exactly when (I am forgetful in this case) but that doesn’t matter. ![]() Well, I watched the 1944 version of Gas Light yesterday to re-familiarize myself with the plot. The term is derived from the title of a 1938 British stage play, Gas Light, which was subsequently produced as a film, Gaslight, in the United Kingdom (1940) and the United States (1944). Because the gaslighter is himself typically psychologically disordered, he is often not fully aware of what he is doing or why he is doing it. The phenomenon is attested in the clinical literature as a form of narcissistic abuse whereby the extreme narcissist attempts to satisfy his pathological need for constant affirmation and esteem (for “narcissistic supply”) by converting vulnerable people into intellectual and emotional slaves whom he paradoxically despises for their victimhood. In some cases the intended (and achieved) result is to rob the victim of his sanity. Its effect is to gradually undermine the victim’s confidence in his own ability to distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or reality from appearance, thereby rendering him pathologically dependent on the gaslighter in his thinking or feelings.Īs part of the process, the victim’s self-esteem is severely damaged, and he becomes additionally dependent on the gaslighter for emotional support and validation. Gaslighting, an elaborate and insidious technique of deception and psychological manipulation, usually practiced by a single deceiver, or “gaslighter,” on a single victim over an extended period. Gaslighting as an idiom derives from a play of the same title. Yeah, eventually, gaslighters will try to convince us that we are mad and irrational, so irrational that we’re not able to take care of ourselves, that we’d better leave everything to them and for them to control our lives. It’s just that we hear them wrong, or that we don’t remember exactly what they say, or that we’re paranoid, that we’re crazy. Instead of admitting to or denying their lies, they try to manipulate us by saying we are the problem. People who try to gaslight others are the worst and most crafty, insidious and vicious of all liars. Why, it’ll open new shipping routes, thus cut travel time by ship from Asia to North America. Or they’ll say, for example, melting ice in the Arctic is a good thing. They’ll say, for example, the earth is cooling because this past winter, there was a huge snowfall. Well, this means they’ll spin the issue round and round so that the issue in question becomes blurry, confusing and unclear – much in the same way, you see, a person who spins round and round and soon enough gets dizzy. They deny that the Earth is hotting up and that humans have something to do with it. In terms of climate change, on the other hand, those who deny that this is happening usually belong to the group that engages in “denial, spin and gaslighting”.ĭenial, of course, means they simply deny this is happening. ![]() Trump, you see, has told more than 10,000 lies so far (crossing the 10,000-lie threshold on April 27, 2019, according to the Washington Post). Particularly, what’s gaslighting?įirst of all, “this age” may well be now, right now, and the topic may be pertaining to climate change or Donald Trump’s administration in general. Please explain “spin and gaslighting”, as in “in this age of denial, spin and gaslighting”.
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