ANALYSIS

  INTERNAL EXTERNAL TRANS TERMS  

EXAMPLES

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EXAMPLE TWO


What is hate?


Ask a question such as what is hate? Then pose it as a statement as hate is what? Hate is (what ever association comes to mind) fight, mean, bully, bad, Hate is angry look. Hate is violence, fire, emotion. Hate is I'll get you.

Personalize the question: What do I hate? I hate creeps, spinach, books, child molesters. I hate school, dictators, bosses, violence, bullies, part-time fathers, big-shots, liars, braggarts, snobs, better than me. Who is better than me? I hate who? I hate (specific individuals better than me). Why are they better than me? Better than me is what? Smarter, have more, better looking, talking, acting. have what I don't have.

Allow the memory to visualize real places, events and people in the past in which these feelings and emotions were real. Relive and study the situation as if it were actually happening in the present. That situation with Smith, Bevis, Whitehead and Stanley. What can I say I didn't fit in. Didn't talk, didn't joke, didn't know what to say. The red convertible was nice. Had to always sit in the back seat. Maybe the class thing, they seemed low to me. They were certainly different than me. I didn't hate them. I was inadequate to the situation. Had to hate myself for being such a ... hate me. I hated me. Hate is how stupid I felt, wanting to be a part but not ... hate is inadequacy, inability, but wanting the friends and not fitting in. Then when they stood me up for the Home Coming Game, that was it, I hated them. I'm a nice guy. I didn't do anything wrong. Maybe I didn't do anything right either.

Create a statement. Hate is the inability to perform, play the role, be the in-group, fast, witty, spontaneous, act crazy. Hate is something I can't do. Hate is them not accepting that or helping me along. Hate is they didn't help me, they let me fry. I hate them for not helping me. Hate is what didn't happen as opposed to what should have. What do I feel, feel, feel, I feel like punching, biff, pop, boom. Hate is a feeling of frustration, anger, resentment. Who do I get, them or me. Maybe nobody's fault, just incompatibilities.

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