Transference

I was meandering through searches and ran into something i thought i'll never will. Treman, father and son. From psychology and eugenics (ew_genics) to microwaves, it all ran in family.

Can't help here not to mention the popular Romanian snack. I was eating it in grade school. As popular and similar to Oreo in the US, a sandwich cookie wrapped by two. But why the name? Probably because it emerged during or right after Soviet occupation and named after Russian name Yevgeny (Евгений).

Or the city in Oregon. Also, Eugene being a Jewish name.

How i ran into Treman? I was searching for a definition of intelligence closest to my ideas. The ability to carry out abstract thinking.

To humans most natural way of thinking is abstract thinking. The ability to turn every day situations to abstract models or to fit them into existing ones and then to take decisions using those models. Some would say it may be an overhead, but is the easiest and definitely most efficient and it happens all the time. 

At the base of abstract thinking are the abstract concepts we turn everyday objects into. More than that, abstract concepts are hierarchical, corresponding to real live hierarchization of objects which makes them easier to handle.

Talking about concepts. It just occurred to me we build abstract concepts not only about everyday objects but around each type of basic emotions.

Drawbacks of abstract thinking. It has the real possibility of overlooking details when oversimplifying. It may be at the roots of objectification.

Wondering if it is not also at the roots of transference as in Freud's concept. If this is the case it means it can be applied to more areas than parenting or love.

One consequence of this theory is that we only love once in a lifetime. Each subsequent to "first" are just instantiations of the abstract concept (that may be improving or adjusting or simplifying over time).

And yes, personification or deification of concepts are certainly the base of ancient mythologies and polytheistic religions. By example it is said that Japan has 8 million kami of which the list of best known mentions...

Wrote this motivated by the persistent repeating of media practices of hijacking real ideas into theatrical scenes with the purpose of suppression of those ideas. Sabotaging communications. Substitution of persons as seen in my Similarities blog.

Of which the last notable scene is Iohannis turning his back to movie director Orban but they are ubiquitous in media in setups they make us think are news articles.

Maybe not the best example but close enough...

Any of the Jack Harper. Tet and Titan (though i don't really get the deeper meaning of the symbolism).