Project Description
This handout combines Reich's diagram of a blocked and repressed impulse (the 'turning-against-the-self') with the three layers of character armour. In this handout the three layers are explained in some detail (top half of page). This diagram is easier to understand if we illustrate it with terms drawn from Transactional Analysis (bottom half of page). This handout was later revised and updated, without the three layers of character armour (which later became a more dubious concept, encouraging idealisation of the 'core').
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