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This is actually a great example of transference and is a fantastic tool for understanding yourself in a deeper way. In many ways, the advice you are giving is
by bladegash 7y ago
This is actually a great example of transference and is a fantastic tool for understanding yourself in a deeper way.
In many ways, the advice you are giving is a means of your own subconscious communicating with your conscious awareness. If you really pay attention to the advice you give/the way the person's own situation makes you feel, it also gives you a greater awareness of your own thoughts and feelings towards your own situation and unresolved issues.
Vice versa, the advice that others give to you offers a view into their inner conflicts, baggage, etc. It is a fascinating phenomenon.
- malloryerik 7y agoWhat an interesting reconfiguration -- or extension? -- of the Golden Rule: "Do unto yourself as you would do unto others." Or maybe something more modern: "Act as you'd have others act." "Do what you'd have others do." Edit: Or the slightly less generous, "Do as you'd have another do."
- chantelles 7y agoI wrote my memoir in the third person for just this reason.