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<blockquote data-quote="Laurie Marr" data-source="post: 443170" data-attributes="member: 175">JR was a sadist, but not in the comic book sense. In a more psychologically persuasive formulation we could say that Sadism is the conversion of another person&#039;s vulnerability into an experience of one&#039;s own power, gratification or psychological regulation. Fromm regarded sadism as an attempt to overcome one&#039;s own experience of impotence through absolute control over another living being.Similarly, the reason that &#039;Daddy&#039; looms so large in this dynamic is that JR. humiliates people, manipulates them and enjoys watching them lose because domination demonstrates that he possesses the qualities he associates with Jock: toughness, cunning, refusal to be beaten, protection of the family business. The pleasure of victory is therefore doubled. He defeats the immediate opponent while imaginatively securing paternal recognition: Daddy would know that I was the one strong enough to do what had to be done.&nbsp; &#039;Bobby is weak, Daddy. Just plain weak.&#039;He is a victim of arrested development insofar as JR&nbsp; has (unlike Bobby who admires Jock but can repudiate him when needed) internalised the paternal object&nbsp; so that the terror of impotence (as with all sadists) lurks not far beneath JR&#039;s&nbsp; self satisfied grin.In short: JR was by far the most neurotic character on Dallas.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Laurie Marr, post: 443170, member: 175"] JR was a sadist, but not in the comic book sense. In a more psychologically persuasive formulation we could say that Sadism is the conversion of another person's vulnerability into an experience of one's own power, gratification or psychological regulation. Fromm regarded sadism as an attempt to overcome one's own experience of impotence through absolute control over another living being. Similarly, the reason that 'Daddy' looms so large in this dynamic is that JR. humiliates people, manipulates them and enjoys watching them lose because domination demonstrates that he possesses the qualities he associates with Jock: toughness, cunning, refusal to be beaten, protection of the family business. The pleasure of victory is therefore doubled. He defeats the immediate opponent while imaginatively securing paternal recognition: [I]Daddy would know that I was the one strong enough to do what had to be done. [/I] 'Bobby is weak, Daddy. Just plain weak.' He is a victim of arrested development insofar as JR has (unlike Bobby who admires Jock but can repudiate him when needed) internalised the paternal object so that the terror of impotence (as with all sadists) lurks not far beneath JR's self satisfied grin. In short: JR was by far the most neurotic character on Dallas. [/QUOTE]

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