DOMAIN:

Desire / Ruin

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CORE MEANING:

The tendency to destroy in search for immediate satisfaction.

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CLINICAL DESCRIPTION:

A destructive compensatory condition in which the subject seeks emotional intensity through damage and waste.

Relief is obtained through collapse.

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CORE PATHOLOGY:

Destructive gratification.

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SYMPTOMS:

​-Pleasure obtained from damage or disorder

-Impulsive acts which accelerate decay

-Attraction to broken spaces, ruined objects, waste

-The impulse returns through new forms of damage

-Emotional stimulation through chaos and collapse

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PROGNOSIS:

Satisfaction is immediate but corrosive, each act reduces the threshold for the next.

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