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The bloodthirsty murders of pregnant celebrity actress Sharon Tate — along with four of her friends — by members of the Charles Manson “family” tipped off a decade of national fascination with cults during the 1970s. This fascination would reach its horrific zenith in 1978 with the forced suicide of over nine-hundred followers of Jim Jones, leader of the “People’s Temple,” in the small South American nation of Guyana.

The Role of Identification with the Aggressor in Brainwashing

Key to unlocking the enigma of cult leaders like Manson and Jones, is the concept of “Identification with the Aggressor,” first described by Hungarian analyst, Sandor Ferenczi, an acolyte, and member of the inner circle of psychology patron saints, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Identification with the aggressor refers to a survival strategy Ferenczi identified in children undergoing traumatic abuse. In response to these incidents, Ferenczi believed a child might split off from reality and cease all thoughts and perceptions, becoming completely passive. Under this spell, children submit to all of their parents’ “desires, or even anticipating them, and eventually realizing that he can find some satisfaction in this.” Many followers of Ferenczi’s work went on to apply the concept of identification with the aggressor to circumstances experienced by adults who are exposed to traumatic abuse.

These theorists have observed that adults can revert to a childlike state of defenselessness and passivity in situations where they are made powerless by a complete loss of control over their personal safety. To adapt to ongoing traumatic abuse, it’s been hypothesized that victims fuse their identity with that of a charismatic, seemingly all-powerful leader. With an individual’s volitions and sense of self effectively erased, the motivations of a parasitic group or the needs of a cult leader are embraced by the victim as their own. Victims often feel gratitude for “favors” they are granted by those in power — small things like being allowed to live.

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