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Consideration of psychoanalytic views of paranoid symptomatology led to the assumption of an approach-avoidance conflict in male paranoids regarding power in other men. Approach involved wishes to be dependent on powerful men and to appropriate their power through magical sexual-aggressive means. Avoidance involved anticipated fears of retaliatory injury and destruction by more powerfully perceived males. A deduction that increments in the power of males, but not females, would result in paranoids' decreased resultant attraction was confirmed. The traditional, undifferentiated like-sex attraction hypothesis was not supported. (38 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
