Inversion

excerpt from the book Analytical Trilogy or Integral Psychoanalysis by Norberto Keppe & Claudia Pacheco

In 1977, after having had great difficulties with psychoanalysis|, I began to notice a fact that was fundamental to the perception of neurotic attitudes: the process of Inversion.

From the time we are born, we initiate a process of contact with the world and all its things in never-ending sequence. This process, which is practically the center of all existence, we call revelation.

However, man inverted his concepts, especially those concerning life and truth, wanting to see things as harmful to him, and he actually began to believe that they could cause him great great suffering. In this way, he has created an inverted social system (in the ambits of politics, economics, etc.) that has become a heavy burden to him.

The Inversion that man makes is always in relation to truth, to not accepting truth. This inversion occurs each time we attempt to deny, omit or alter reality. We choose to believe that in order remain in goodness we must suffer the lashes of really, as if it were a punishment inflicted upon us by life. We try to believe as well that the world needs us, that humanity would lose a great deal by our death (Nero), that even the very Creator benefits by our existence.

The first step toward perception of the origin of psychic Illness was this factor of psychological inversion by which a person tries to place everything in his inner self contrary to the way it really is: fantasy – excellent, reality – harmful, love – bad, hate – good; patience – retardation, intolerance – progress; and so forth. Because of this, the very silence of psychopathology was born inverted like all the other things of civilization, but it is managing, unlike the other sciences to correct itself. Did Freud not say that the world was upside down?

In my psychoanalytical work I have reached some conclusions that are opposite to those of Freud. For example: it is not the repressed elements that is to blame for neuroses, but the individual’s attitude of trying to repress it that is to blame it is not an “unconscious” that causes us to be disturbed, but the attitude we take of hiding consciousness that perturbs us; it is not the use the libido that leads to self development. but precisely independence from it. l am showing that without the correct use of dialectics, we cannot perceive inversion. For example, only a profound individual is able to see his own superficially, just as only a relatively sane is able to see his Insanity.

Inversion occurs when insanity is projected to sanity and also when sanity is projected to insanity: for example, no person can be happy when he is ill, but he puts perception of his problems (which is sanity) as the cause of his illness – and this attitude is the only possible key to the solution of his problems.

Whether we deny it or not, we always have a feeling of hardship when we confront life, and it is this feeling that serves as our consciousness to perceive the attitude of dental, omission, or alteration of reality that we constantly take. Thus we project outwards to existence all that we do in opposition to it because it is an unnecessary hiatus between ourselves and truth, creating an apparent abyss between the world and the Creator.

Theoretically, we all know that anything that exists is a part of truth; but we create a division (an imaginary one) between the divine and the human universe, exactly the way we divide our inner self, giving one part to the Creator and the other to our Imagination.

Truth is so magnificent that it would never have been abandoned if we had not inverted it, seeing it as false. Thus, when we see the churches empty, we can presume that there is some grave error of perception. not only on the part of the pastors, but also on the part of the followers. I believe that the error lies in the mistaken idea we have of God.

God is seen as a colleague with whom we will converse, after death, hoping to get a bargain in respect to our acts, as though we, too, were gods. And we do not want to perceive that it has all been decided right here by our very own selves.

What man really appreciates is reality; he often thanks that he prefers fantasy, because of the inversion he makes, but he knowns in spite of all his errors, that his happiness lies in accepting reality. Man is infallibly linked to truth, and he will only manage to have a good relationship with all things when is well adapted to his own reality. However, he must always keep in mind that although it was not he who created this truth, he should be its spokesman, so that he can establish a relationship with an ever wider universe.