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THE SYCOTIC MIASM
George Loukas
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The word sycosis derives from the word
syco (Greek word for fig). Hanhemann
used this word because the sycotic person
tends to make warts that may reach to the
point of looking like a fig. In other words
sycosis means verrucose .
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Lets begin with the sycotic persons mental
sphere. The sycotic person has an inclination to
show off. A sycotic woman walks in the street
and cuts a dash. Heads turn around when she
walks by and that is what she seeks,
consciously or even unconsciously. A sycoticman walks with a swagger and puffs himself
up to show his muscles. Expensive clothes
bought at trendy shops also have to so withsycosis. Buying an expensive car (though it is
not necessary for professional use) is also
related to sycosis.
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Medicine and trendy professions, such as
journalist, lawyer, politician, have much appeal
for sycotic persons. The shinny shingle on thedoor, the glamorous surface, the worldwide
recognition appeal to the young student. A
sycotic scientist thinks of himself to be an
exceptional case in his field, even though he is
mediocre. He calls himself an expert or an adept
in his field. He likes to put many titles on his
shingle. As a patient he prefers distinguishedand highly qualified doctors, who sound like
omniscient to him. He has a mistrust of doctors
who are ordinary and straight.
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This inclination to show off marks every
sycotic behavior and most times it is
unconscious. When he is sad, for instance,
the way he cries, the way he sighs draws
everybodys attention and sympathy towards
him. The way a sycotic person gets angry isalso flamboyant. The person screams,
shouts, makes a great fuss. It is some kind of
puffing up that draws other peoplesattention. When the sycotic person is happy,
he roars with laughter and also makes a
great fuss.
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Another major feature of the sycotic persons
mental sphere is a tendency to keep things to
oneself. In general the notion of keepingoverweighs that of giving. Therefore the
sycotic person is not keen on giving. The
sycotic teacher is rather unwilling to give hisknowledge, he is not the kind of person to
communicate knowledge. He will try and keep
it to himself. He may even try and mislead
other people so long and he does not give it.
Most times there is an ambivalence about
giving-keeping.
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As for emotions he keeps them to himselftoo. Although he himself wants to be the
focus f general attention, he does not open
his heart to his partner when he is in
trouble. It is the case of a mother who gives
her child the cold shoulder. There is no
emotion in her caress, which is rather stiff.
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The sycotic lover is reluctant to convey emotion.
Passion is not among his features. Sycosis is
secret. The sycotic person tends to keepeverything secret, out of sight. This may happen
either consciously or unconsciously. For
instance, he may keep his aims secret, he actsdeviously, he does not reveal much about
himself, he hides his real intentions. He also
hides his real feelings. When he is sad, he doesnot look so sad as the circumstances require.
Thats why he seems to be strong in other
peoples eyes. He may dislike someone and still
smile at him and be very friendly with him.
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When the sycotic person gives, he certainly
means to take later on. Avarice is an
expression of the need to keep things to
oneself. An avaricious person is stingy, hedoes not give. Collecting objects is a sycotic
manifestation too.
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In general, when a sycotic person responds
to a stimulation, his reaction is in the rightdirection but has a reduced intensity. This is
due to the fact that he keeps things to
himself, he absorbs only a part of intensityof the given stimulation. This shows that the
person is strong in appearance only. For
instance, when he is subjected to a sad
stimulation, he does not seem to be sad.
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In fact, however, this sort of strength is
weakness and this is due to the fact that this
kind of person has a limited width of response.
He shows inflexibility in the way of
functioning, that is to say. This stiffness
coexists with a tendency to have control. Thesycotic person wants to have control over
other people and over himself as well. He
keeps every expression, every emotion of hisunder control. He cannot stand the
spontaneity of emotions and acts.
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Pedantry is another feature of sycotic
miasm. The housewife who gets annoyed at
finding a speck of dust on the furniture, who
sweeps and mops the floor three times a day,
who forbids her husband to enter the house
with his shoes on, is an example of sycotic
pedantry.
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In general the sycotic person is prim and
proper, orderly, he concerns himself toomuch with schedule, so much that he lays
more weight on the schedule that on essential
things. He wants all the objects on his desk tobe in alignment, he wants his car to be
perfectly clean, he sees that its color does not
fade, he protects it against the rain and the
wind, he worries about small details.
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Religiosity is another example of sycotic
pedantry. A religionist focuses his attention not
on philosophy and on the deeper meaning ofreligion but on the ritual. It is very important to
him that the sign of the cross is made three
times, not two, that the fast is observed forexactly forty days, he is very strict on the
observance of the schedule. Religiosity, along
with the other features of sycotic miasm, weretypical of the Scribes and Pharisees, who always
abided by the letter of the law but could not
understand what purpose the existence of the
law served in the first place.
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The sycotic scientist tends to classify the
phenomena. Classifications are sycotic
expressions. Excessive adherence toclassifying systems, such as DSM or ICDX is
sycosis. The notion of specialty and
overspecialization is a sycotic feature too.The sycotic person focuses his attention on
details but misses the general picture.
Therefore we can see the evolution of
medicine and of science in general and how
important it is to have a complete and in
depth cure of scientists so that science may
evolve.
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In general the sycotic person is dogmatic andabsolute. To him it is all black or white. He is
inflexible. He is not receptive to new ideas. He
rejects a new idea without even elaborating it.
Reclassifications in the system of knowledgeand values fill him with anxiety. He wants
knowledge and ideas to be well classified
inside his head. He wants everything to besettled and fixed. That causes him a need for
control.
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He wants to keep control of everything. The
complexity and multiformity of nature,scare him as well as the perpetual motion of
universe. Consequently of all this
multiformity he picks out what he can
classify, what he can put in order. That is
usually only the surface of phenomena.
Once he has classified it, he will try to keep
it steady and fixed. He allows only smallchanges, which he can control.
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In general, in sycosis there is tendency to
exaggeration psoric features. For instance, the
psoric person has a vague and unconsciousfeeling of inferiority. When, however the
person thinks that he is not capable of
anything, that he is not good-looking, that heis not intelligent, that he is lacking in
everything, then we notice an excessive
expression of the feeling of inferiority and it is
the case of sycotic miasm. Moreover the initial
anxiety becomes in excessive expression, fear
of death and of diseases.
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Respect for the rules that characterizes the
psoric person, becomes in sycosis excessivepedantry regarding the observance of the law.
Repression, which is, as already said, a primary
feature of psoric miasm and which has to doalso with its creation, becomes in sycosis even
more excessive and more intense, so intense
that it obstructs processes, such as freeassociation. The process of psychoanalysis isalso obstructed and thus occurs resistance.
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In physical sphere hyperplasies and
hypertrophies prevail. As previously said,
sycosis owes its name to this feature. Sycosisis also characterized by an increase in
secretions. For instance, gonorrhea is a
sycotic manifestation. Sycotic eczema showsprofuse effusion of fluids. At other times we
notice a retention of fluids in the organism.
Inflammation is a major feature of sycosis as
well as formation of cysts. The feeling of
fragility is also remarkable, the person does
not stand being touched or even approached.