The Psychology of Gaslighting

The lightness of the aggressions, their microness, is absolutely essential for understanding the psychology of the perpetrator. Gaslighters are often trying to turn their victim into their fantasy of what the victim should be. It's like men as a class, we suffer from a Pygmalion syndrome, right? We want to create these fantasies in our image and we get off on the idea that we have that shaping power.

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